Describe Polly and the nature of her awakening in the story.
‘Neighbour Rosicky’ by Willa Cather was first published in 1928 and mainly concerns the impending death of Anton Rosicky, although Cather uses the story to tell the story of his life through flashback, inner reminiscences amd anecdotes that Rosicky tells his six children. He is a recent immigrant, originally from Bohemia (now Slovakia in central Europe); he spent time in London as a child, but emigrated to the USA when he was twenty. He lived and worked in New York for fifteen years, but, feeling he was doing nothing constructive with his life, he moved to Nebraska to start farming. Much ...
