Landscape
"There along the western sky-line, it skirted a great cornfield, much larger than any field I had ever seen. This cornfield, and the sorghum patch behind the barn, were the only broken land in sight. Everywhere, as far as the eye could reach, there was nothing but rough, shaggy, red grass, most of it as tall as I. As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water was the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the color of wine-stains, or of the certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running" (My Antonia, 41-42).
Although the Shimerda's in the novel My Antonia, by Willa Cather, were Bohemian farmers in Nebraska, Swedish farmers in Minnesota were faced with similar situations and difficulties.
As Brandon looked out upon this landscape, he was amazed by how far the flat land stretched; it was farther than he could see. There were a few small trees; however they looked insignificant compared to the grass. It looked as though the grass was about to take over little trees (My Antonia, 42).
