My Ántonia, Chapter 5: samenvatting

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1. Ántonia celebrates her father’s friendship with Pavel and Peter, whose speech she can partly understand.
2. The narrator contrasts Pavel’s sickly, restless appearance with Peter’s friendly manner and describes their isolation before the Shimerdas arrive.
3. Ántonia and the narrator visit Peter, who shows them his cow, chickens, garden, and comfortable home.
4. Peter shares ripe melons and says that trouble drives him from Russia, where he imagines having a daughter.
5. Peter plays his harmonica, then gives the children cucumbers and milk for Mrs. Shimerda.

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Peter’s brief explanation places an unnamed hardship behind his cheerful welcome. He gives no details about that trouble.

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