Cather mends a special relationship between Jim and Antonia that forms and breaks over the course of her novel My Antonia. The two characters meet at a young age and begin to develop a friendship -------. Jim teaches Antonia the language and culture of America while Antonia shares her culture and morals. Soon their respective friendship turns into a brother-sister relationship, an ardent but not intimate love. As time goes by their friendship grows closer as they drift apart in their separate lives. Jim begins his college years, while Antonia holds down a job and becomes engaged to Larry Donovan. He misses Antonia's loving motherly nature that he grew up with, so he visits Hope during an academic break to hear that Antonia is pregnant and Larry Donovan has abandoned her in Chicago. Jim is heartbroken and disappointed says, “I could not forgive her for being an object of pity…” (Cather 193), in a compassionate manner. His love for her was so immense that he could not bear to feel that he would have to face another hardship. Distracted by business, Jim is driven to despair, longing for his childhood. At the beginning of his adult life he wishes to see Antonia again. She then heads to her farm, where she and her large family live their happy lives. His last memories of Antonia were born there and will never be forgotten. Cather mends a special relationship between Jim and Antonia that is made and broken in her novel My Antonia. People fill the clouds of our memories