When Jim kills the rattler he exemplifies physical protection toward Antonia. When Antonia asks Jim to sleep in the Cutters' house, he shows passionate protection by sleeping there. When Jim gets attacked by Mr. Cutter, he shows emotional protection. In Willa Cather's My Antonia Mr. Cutter's influence on Jim and Antonia leads to a stronger sense of, physical, passionate, and emotional protection between Jim and Antonia.
Mr. Cutter's influence on Jim and Antonia leads to a stronger sense of physical protection between Jim and Antonia. When Jim kills the rattler, it exemplifies physical protection. Jim is with Antonia “The biggest snake I had ever, seen… He twitched and began to coil slowly… He was as thick as my leg and looked as if millstones couldn't crush that disgusting vitality out of him…. I ran up and drove at his head with my spade, struck him fairly across the neck, and in a minute he was all about my feet in wavy loops” (Cather 32). Vitality is the capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence. When Jim crushes the snake with the spade, it no longer has a purposeful existence on the planet. Mr. Cutter influence on Jim and Antonia is shown by the effects of his actions and behaviors. Jim protects Antonia by preserving her of any injury or harm. When Jim is confronted by a snake, he physically kills the snake by using his body and the spade. He twitched and began to coil into rings, one above the other. Men often protect the ones they care about by defending the ones they love against man, beast, or machine.
Mr. Cutter's influence on Jim and Antonia leads to a stronger sense of passionate protection between Jim and Antonia. Jim is asked by Antonia to sleep in the Cutter's house for her. “I don't think it's right for you to stay there, feeling that way...Maybe Jim would be willing to go over there and sleep and you could come here nights… Antonia turned to me eagerly. "Oh, would you, Jim? I"d make up my bed nice and fresh for you…I was afraid to leave the window open last night'” (Cather 147-8). Mr. Cutter influence on Jim and Antonia is shown by the effects of his actions and behaviors. Jim protects Antonia by preserving her of any injury or harm. Passionately is any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate. When Jim is willing to go to the Cutters' to sleep he shows compelling emotion toward Antonia. The catalyst here is the Cutter situation. This is the catalyst because without the Cutter situation Jim and Antonia would not have been able to bond so close together. The effect happens when Jim's grandmother asks Jim to help Antonia and go and sleep in the Cutters house while they are away. Men are often willing to engage in favors for women because of their love and passion.
Mr. Cutter's influence on Jim and Antonia leads to a stronger sense of emotional protection between Jim and Antonia. Jim gets attacked by Mr. Cutter. “If the room had suddenly been flooded with electric light... I caught a handful of whiskers and pulled, shouting something… The man became insane; he stood over me, choking me with one fist and beating me in the face with the other, hissing and chuckling and letting out a flood of abuse” (Cather 148-9). Mr. Cutter's influence on Jim and Antonia is shown by the effects of his actions and behaviors. Jim protects Antonia by preserving her of any injury or harm. Jim goes to sleep in the Cutter's house out of emotional preservation for him and Antonia. Influence is the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions. Mr. Cutter displays this when he enters a frenzy toward Jim. Protection means the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm, a thing, person, or group that protects and is displayed by Jim when he willingly stays and sleeps in the Cutter's house. Jim preserves Antonia from injury or harm, and a specific person, Mr. Cutter. Emotion is an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness which is displayed when Jim experiences fear and hate at the Cutter's house when he is attracted. The item affected is Jim's physical wellness and his feelings for Antonia. Jim was in good health before he gets assaulted and he might be less willing to do a favor for Antonia in the future. The catalyst for the effect is Mr. Cutter. He is the catalyst because he causes Jim's pain and his feelings for Antonia. The effect happens when Mr. Cutter goes insane and nearly kills Jim. Jim is all beaten up and his relationship with Antonia has torn a little farther apart, he is less willing to do favors for her. When Jim's relationship with Antonia changes, that significantly impacts the novel because Antonia would view Jim a whole lot differently changing their relationship. Men are sometimes beaten to protect their love for women.
Mr. Cutter's influence on Jim and Antonia leads to a stronger sense of, physical, passionate, and emotional protection between Jim and Antonia. When Jim kills the rattler he exemplifies physical protection toward Antonia. When Antonia asks Jim to sleep in the Cutters' house, he shows passionate protection by sleeping there. When Jim gets attacked by Mr. Cutter, he shows emotional protection. Sometimes men are often used by women to solve there problems.
