... was unable to totally renounce her love of women. In particular, says Fetterly, Cather's sensual description of Lena Lingard shows "the strength of her resistance to renouncing her lesbian sensibility." Cather therefore was not completely unable to put her sexuality aside and creates a space for lesbian interpretation. Farwell perhaps does not offer a simplistic definition of what her idea of lesbian ... in My Antonia with all of these ideas in mind imposes a reading on Cather's work that neglects the simplicity of her beautifully composed descriptions of the landscape, but in another s...

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