What does the comparison between the country girls
and town girls in this passage show?
Read the passage from My Antonia by Willa Cather.
I can remember a score of these country girls
who were in service in Black Hawk during the few
years I lived there, and I can remember something
unusual and engaging about each of them.
Physically they were almost a race apart, and out-
of-door work had given them a vigour which, when
they got over their first shyness on coming to town,
developed into a positive carriage and freedom of
movement, and made them conspicuous among
Black Hawk women.
That was before the day of high-school athletics.
Girls who had to walk more than half a mile to
school were pitied. There was not a tennis-court in
the town; physical exercise was thought rather
inelegant for the daughters of well-to-do families.
Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty,