The landscape in “My Antonia” "This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn,that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to -Willa Cather (Internet #1) Her life task became portraying how the pioneers tamed the wild land. Cather's visual, and disarmingly simple, descriptions of prairie life a ....