He says he is happy with Ántonia and that he'd like to go back to Europe some day.

Cuzak admits that he is a city person, not a farm person.He married Ántonia shortly after he met her. He ended up on Florida and then finally Nebraska. He worked in Vienna and then came to New York. His father was a shoemaker and he was apprenticed to his uncle who was a furrier. After supper Cuzak and Jim go for a walk.So he killed her and shot himself and then called in some men to witness that he outlived her. Cutter was afraid he would die first and his wife's family would get his stuff. A new law was passed under which a wife who survived her husband was guaranteed a third of her husband's estate. Later he asks Jim if he heard about the Cutters.He talks about a singer named Vasakova who broke her leg. Cuzak brought some Bohemian papers home with him and starts telling his wife all the news.He seems amused that he has so many children. Cuzak brought little presents home for his children, mostly candy.Jim watches Ántonia and Cuzak together and sees that they fit each other well.He talks about the great sights they saw in the city. Rudolph, one of the sons, has come with his father.He is a small, lively man with great teeth. Finally Cuzak, Ántonia's husband, arrives home from his trip.Ántonia explains to Jim that she always treated Martha just like her other children and so did Anton.Ántonia wishes Jim could meet Martha except she doesn't get away from her own farm except on Sundays. Jim dresses and washes and comes into the house for breakfast.The next morning Jim observes Leo some more.

stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. In the end Antonia is exactly what Burden says she is: a woman who 'had that something which fires the imagination, could. Through the eyes of Jim Burden, her tutor and disappointed admirer, we follow Antonia from farm to town and through hardships both natural and human, surviving everything from poverty to a failed romance-and not only surviving, but triumphing. We first meet Antonia Shimerda as the young daughter of a Bohemian immigrant who in time will be driven to suicide by the oceanic loneliness of life on the Nebraska prairie. In this symphonically powerful and magnificently observed novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning heroines in American fiction, a woman whose robust high spirits and calm, undemonstrative strength make her emblematic of the virtues Cather most admired in her country. 'No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia.'

My antonia book cover