He is disappointed to learn that Ántonia has been deceived and abandoned by her fiancé, Larry Donovan, who has left her with an illegitimate child. In Book 4, Jim returns to Black Hawk during his summer vacation after completing his Harvard degree before he enters law school.
Jim promises his grandmother to focus on his studies and gives an excellent oration at the high school commencement. Harling tells Ántonia she must stop attending the dances, she gets work in the household of the dishonest moneylender, Wick Cutter, whose plan to rape Ántonia is thwarted by Jim. As a high school student, Jim admires the hired girls from Bohemia and Scandinavia who work in town to help pay off their farm families’ debts when he sees them at Saturday night dances. However, Jim is overjoyed to see more of Ántonia when Grandmother Burden gets her a housekeeping job at the home of their next-door neighbors, the Harlings, a friendly Norwegian immigrant family. Jim is sad that the Burdens no longer need their faithful farmhands, Jake and Otto Fuchs, who have been like his older brothers. After the move, Jim’s grandparents rent out their homestead and buy a house in town. Book 2 takes place in the town of Black Hawk, where 13-year-old Jim moves when his grandparents become too old to do arduous farm work.
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