Ántonia Shimerda

The bold and free-hearted young Bohemian girl who moves with her family to Black Hawk, Nebraska. Intelligent, optimistic, loyal, and kindhearted, the naturally gregarious Ántonia is forced to accept a difficult life after the death of her father. At the time Jim writes the narrative, she is raising her large family on the Nebraska prairie, not far from where she and Jim grew up.