Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in My Antonia, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
The Immigrant Experience
Friendship
The Prairie
The Past
Innocence and Maturity
Gender
Summary
Analysis
Jim says that the Cutters are disliked by nearly everyone in Black Hawk. Wick Cutter is a moneylender who preys on farmers, tricking them into accepting loans they can't afford. Cutter also constantly argues with his wife, Mrs. Cutter, a "terrifying" shrew of a woman.
Through his interactions with Peter and Pavel, Wick Cutter has shown a tendency to take advantage of immigrants like Ántonia.
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