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Introduction
Chapter One Female Initiation Story and Cather's Life Experience
1.1 Bildungsroman and Female Initiation Story
1.2 Cather's Life Experience and its Reappearance in My Antonia
Chapter Two Initiation of Female Characters in My Antonia
2.1 Initiation of Antonia Shimerda
2.1.1 Disillusionment of Child's Innocence
2.1.2 Antonia's Limited Growth in the Town
2.2 Initiation of Lena and Tiny
2.2.1 Working as Hired Girls
2.2.2 Their Aversion to Love and Marriage
Chapter Three Identity Achieved after Self-fulfillment
3.1 Antonia: Constructing as Founder of the Family and the Land
3.2 Lena and Tiny: Struggling as Businesswomen
Conclusion
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