Author Willa Cather embedded literary devices, such as metaphors, similes, and personification, within her writing.
"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."
"The grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island."
"Winter comes down savagely over a little town on the prairie. The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together. The roofs, that looked so far away across the green treetops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
The setting has a major effect on the characters in this book. Its just like an animal in their habitat, the conditions are what makes them act the way they do. Ambrosch is always in the fields working and so it gives him a negative attitude towards jim and his family. The poor living situation of the shimerdas makes Mrs. Shimerda angry and unhappy all the time. The hard farm work has made Antonia full of pride and makes her think she is more like the men.
Setting has a major effect on me. Such as today when i looked out the window and seen the white gleaming snow i was extremely happy. When it is winter and all the lushious green has gone theirs always a gloomy effect.
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