@article{oai:dwcla.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000156,
 author = {志水, 智子 and SHIMIZU, Satoko},
 journal = {Asphodel, アスフォデル},
 month = {Jul},
 note = {application/pdf, AN00000289-20140726-3, In Willa Cather's My Mortal Enemy (1926), the author describes various opposite images such as poverty and wealth, single life and matrimony, Europe and America, Catholicism and Protestanism, love and hostility, and youth and age, through the heroine's life. As for these pairs of opposite notions, it can be thought that one notion sometimes is the root of the other. And the heroine's life can be explained by these oppsite notion. Myra Henshawe, the heroine, desires a rich and happy life but feels lonely at last. This essay aims to explore the meaning of Myra's loneliness.
Myra prefers poor artistic friends to rich people with money, and kindly takes care of her young friends. However, she is satisfied with her friends only when she is richer and stronger than them. Moreover, she always wants to live in high society and desires to be richer. Although her husband has a steady job till her later years, she connot be satisfied with her plain life and feels unhappy. Her ambition for money and a materialistic life prevents her from realizing a realistic life for her.
While Myra longs for her past life and feels unhappy, her husband, Osward, can positively accept all his life and reality. His positive way of thinking makes Myra lonelier. Myra can neither make money by herself nor abandon her unrealistic ambition. Her loneliness symbolizes the weakness of the people like her.},
 pages = {3--16},
 title = {My mortal enemyにおける対立要素とMyraの孤独},
 volume = {49},
 year = {2014},
 yomi = {シミズ, サトコ}
}