Lena Lingard

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Lena Lingard is a free-spirited, independent young immigrant woman in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," whose unconventional choices and entrepreneurial success challenge traditional gender and social expectations on the American frontier.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf female character
fictional character
literary character
achieves financial independence
professional success as a dressmaker
appearsIn My Ántonia
associatedWithTheme female entrepreneurship
frontier life
gender roles
immigration
the American Dream
linked to: American Dream
challenges conventional social norms
traditional gender expectations
contrastsWith Ántonia Shimerda’s domestic life
countryOfFictionalSetting United States
createdBy Willa Cather
ethnicity Norwegian immigrant
fictionalUniverse My Ántonia universe
linked to: My Ántonia
gender female
genre American literature
frontier literature
languageOfWork English
literaryPeriod early 20th-century American literature
medium novel
movesTo Lincoln, Nebraska
narrativeFunction foil to more traditional female roles
nationality Norwegian
occupation dressmaker
personalityTrait free-spirited
independent
nonconformist
pragmatic
self-reliant
sensual
relationshipTo Jim Burden
Ántonia Shimerda
relationshipTypeWith Jim Burden close friend
relationshipTypeWith Ántonia Shimerda friend
residesIn Black Hawk, Nebraska
setting Nebraska frontier
socialRole businesswoman
entrepreneur
immigrant woman on the American frontier
symbolizes female economic independence
resistance to patriarchal norms
sexual autonomy

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My Ántonia character Lena Lingard