My Antonia Part II

Which place does not, at one point or another, act as home to Tiny Soderball?

Where does Widow Steavens live?

The __________ was put up near the Danish laundry, on a vacant lot surrounded by tall, arched cottonwood trees. It was very much like amerry-go-round tent, with open sides and gay flags flying from the poles.

`You are quite comfortable here,aren't you? I live in Lincoln now, too, Jim. I'm in business for myself.I have a dressmaking shop in the Raleigh Block, out on O Street. I've made a real good start.'

ID speaker

"I'd always be miserable in a city. I'd die of lonesomeness. I like to be where I know every stack and tree, and where all the ground is friendly. I want to live and die here."

ID speaker

Who surprises Jim in bed?

"You see, I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobdy like her."


ID audience:

`But it ain't right to deceive us, son, and it brings blame on us. Peoplesay you are growing up to be a bad boy, and that ain't just to us.'

What does Jim decieve his grandparents about

____________ sometimes looked in upon me when he was out foran evening tramp, and I noticed that he was more likely to linger andbecome talkative if I had a comfortable chair for him to sit in, and if hefound a bottle of Benedictine and plenty of the kind of cigarettes heliked, at his elbow.

ID setting

Presently we saw a curious thing: There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested on the high fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was.

What do the hired girls and Jim see?

What is a favorite pastime of Jim and Lena's at the university?

_________ was one of the `fast set' of Black Hawk business men.
He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser. When we saw a light burning in his office late at night, we knew that a game of poker was goingon. _________boasted that he never drank anything stronger than sherry, andhe said he got his start in life by saving the money that other young menspent for cigars. He was full of moral maxims for boys.

`This is what I've beenexpecting, Antonia. You've been going with girls who have a reputation for being free and easy, and now you've got the same reputation. I won't have this and that fellow tramping about my back yard all thetime. This is the end of it, tonight. It stops, short. You can quit going to these dances, or you can hunt another place. Think it over.'

ID speaker

Who runs off with Antonia?

" a stalwart, brown woman, flat-chested, her curly brawn hair a little grizzed. It was a shock of course."

Who is this?

Through the dark he found his way to the Thing, to its mouth. He touched it softly, and it answered softly, kindly. He shivered and stood still.Then he began to feel it all over, ran his finger-tips along the slippery sides, embraced the carved legs, tried to get some conception of its shape and size, of the space it occupied in primeval night. It was cold and hard, and like nothing else in his black universe. He went back to its mouth, began at one end of the keyboard and felt his way down into the mellow thunder, as far as he could go . . .

ID The Thing:

According to the widow, where does Donovan take Antonia?

What does Jim send to to Antonia from his travels abroad?

"You see, I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobdy like her."

ID speaker:

Who is one man not smitten with Lena?