In the fourth section of the novel be narrates, he learns from Widow Steavens that one of his childhood friends was impregnated and abandoned by Larry Donovan.
This character ends the book he narrates by declaring "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past." He muses about Virgil's line "the best days are the first to flee" while being taught classics by Gaston Cleric, who inspires him to attend Harvard. He feels "erased, blotted out" by the landscape after first seeing the setting of the novel he appears in, and impresses his peers by killing an enormous, three-foot long rattlesnake as a youth. In the fourth section of the novel be narrates, he learns from Widow Steavens that one of his childhood friends was impregnated and abandoned by Larry Donovan. In that book's final section, he compares the title character to "a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races," upon returning to visit her for the first time in twenty years. FTP, name this character who recalls his relationship with a Bohemian girl from Black Hawk, Nebraska while riding a train, the narrator of My Antonia.
This character ends the book he narrates by declaring "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."
Jim {Burden} [or Jim {Burden}; or James {Burden}]