What Jim lacks in decisiveness and action, however, he makes up in sensitivity and emotional understanding. Even as a small boy, Jim has an incredible emotional intelligence when it comes to the Shimerdas. He understands the causes behind Mr. Shimerda's death and is even able to find a sublime beauty in the funeral.
As a young man, he is profoundly moved by the play he goes to see with Lena Lingard. Let's take a quick look at the historical basis for Jim's character. Cather borrowed the name "Jim Burden" from a grocer who lived in Red Cloud, Nebraska where she spent her childhood. It's likely that there's a good deal of Cather's own personality and life experiences in Jim. Like Jim, Cather also moved from Virginia to Nebraska when she was ten, and ended up going to college at the University of Nebraska.
These two have a lot in common. A Tale of Two Cities Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Cutter Black Hawk's moneylender is morally and socially bankrupt. He has grown rich by cheating the townspeople. His wife, angered by his stinginess, paints and sells china to embarrass him.
Ironically, he thinks it's amusing. The Cutters' chief pleasure is fighting with each other. Wick finally kills his wife and, moments later, kills himself — in order to keep her family from inheriting his money. Shimerda's suicide. In dramatic contrast to their other countryman, Krajiek, Jelinek is friendly and sincere. He later operates a saloon in Black Hawk. Christian Harling Mrs. Harling makes her household interesting for her children, but when her husband is home, she devotes herself to him.
Christian Harling A grain merchant and cattle buyer, Mr. Harling is autocratic and imperial. He wears a caped overcoat and sports a diamond ring on his little finger. The household revolves around him; Jim Burden will not go there when he is home. Frances Harling The oldest Harling daughter, Frances helps her father in his business.
In addition to her exceptional business judgment, Frances has musical talent and is a friendly, outgoing person. She likes to have fun and plans never to marry.
Peter eventually finds himself severely in debt and sells off his belongings, leaving America for a job as a cook in a Russian labor camp. The patriarch of the Harling family, neighbors to the Burdens in Black Hawk. A businessman of keen ability, Mr. The matriarch of the Harling family, and a charismatic and active woman. The oldest of the Harling children. The only Harling son. Charley is of a military persuasion and eventually goes on to a successful career at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
A blind, black pianist. Cleric eventually moves on to a teaching position at Harvard University and brings Jim along with him. His premature death from pneumonia has a strong effect on Jim. A Bohemian homesteader and friend of the Shimerdas who later moves to Black Hawk and becomes a saloon proprietor. A Bohemian immigrant and neighbor to the Burdens who sells the Shimerdas their first farm in America and cheats them out of several comforts.
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