My profile of antonia.

She positively identifies with American lifestyle and values, and imitates the dress, behavior, language and lifestyle of local people. Antonia studied English from an early age to help her family survive in difficulties. She can speak fluent English, unlike her parents who only speak telegraph English. Besides learning the language of her second hometown, she also wants to learn the American way of life. Antonia learned to do housework, tidy up the room and educate the children when she was a helper in Mrs. Harlem's house. What she learned from working in the city laid the foundation for her to be the head of the family in the future.

However, as a marginal group among immigrants, she has never been able to enter the mainstream society. After living in the city for a period of time, she finally chose to return to the countryside, marry her own people and run her own farm. After marriage, antonia regained the national culture of her home country. Her home is very bohemian. She eats Bohemian cheese and has pictures of Prague in the living room. She speaks Bohemian at home, and her children can't speak English before school. She continues to teach her children the culture of her hometown.

Jim Chanbo

Jim spent his childhood at his grandmother's house in Nebraska. At that time, he had special feelings for nature and land. When he grew up, Jimmy became a legal adviser to a large railway company in the west, and his career was successful, but the past time kept reappearing in his mind. At the end of the novel, when he returned to the grassland to visit Antonija, he didn't look forward to his future life like Antonija, but felt empty and lost.

Lena Lingard

Lena Lingard is another self-improving woman besides antonia. Lena, like antonia, helps others in a small town in order not to be attached to others. Because of her ingenuity and good management, she left the town and opened a tailor shop in the city, which was loved and appreciated by local women. She studies hard. "She will never get tired of delving into those fashion books." Later, I went north to Alaska, where I stayed with Tiny, my childhood friend, and started a factory and industry, which fully demonstrated my talent and ability. Lena takes a completely opposite road to traditional women, with independent and bold and innovative personality characteristics. She doesn't want to tie her fate to a man, don't want to lock herself in a family cage, and long for a life of her own.

Tini

Tini is a woman who dares to take risks and struggle. Tini is brave, strong and enterprising. When she works as a waiter in a restaurant, she can subdue male guests with different treatments by giving them different eyes. Among the boys and girls who grew up in Black Hawk, Tiny lived the most adventurous life and achieved the most stable secular achievements. Tiny, who originally opened a boarding house in Seattle, sold the boarding house and went around the city together after hearing the wonderful stories brought by miners and sailors who came back from the north and seeing the bags of gold they brought back. No one thought that she would have such a bold feat when her potential courage suddenly woke up. Tiny took good care of a Swede. Her kindness brought her good luck. The Swede signed a contract with Tini for his gold-producing land. Since then, Tini has developed the Gold Rush and accumulated a considerable amount of wealth. But as we all know, Dini's success is not only because of her luck, but also because of her passion. She lived in a gold-producing wilderness and paid a high price-she lost three toes. When a friend mentioned the incident of toe fracture, Tiny was careless and didn't seem to care. She is satisfied with her success, but not complacent. Tiny not only made herself rich, but also suggested that her sister Lena set up a shop in San Francisco to benefit Lena.

Xuemeida

He used to be a weaver and an amateur violinist, living a free life. However, due to his wife's encouragement, he came to the harsh western United States. He doesn't know how to farm, and he seems helpless in the face of the harsh farming environment in the central and western regions. Under the impact of two different cultures, I couldn't bear the loss of leaving my hometown, couldn't adapt to the new environment and committed suicide.

Mrs. Chanbo

Jim's grandmother, Mrs. Bodan, also used her cognitive body to perceive life. Mrs. Chanbo is very good at housework. She planted a small vegetable garden, planted pumpkins, potatoes, pea vines and other fruits and vegetables, raised chickens herself and tried her best to arrange the family's diet. She not only keeps the house in good order, but also puts herself in others' shoes and is anxious about others' worries. She not only regards her family and neighbors as friends, but also the animals around her who live with human beings as friends.