My Antonia

Draw a generalization about life from the following quotation in which grandmother says to jim after a visit from ms shimerda and antonia.

" But you see, a body never knows what traits poverty might bbring out in em. It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things.

Chapter 13 Book 1

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Grandmother relates the effects of poverty on the human body. Antonia's mother wasn't really that old but to Jim, she looked old. The land exacts a terrible price on people who don't know what they are doing.