In an essay on My Ántonia, the American writer Wallace Stegner says, “For Jim not…

In an essay on My Ántonia, the American writer Wallace Stegner says, “For Jim not only, as narrator, carries the “burden” or tune of the novel; he carries also the cultural burden that Willa Cather herself carried, the quintessentially American burden of remaking in the terms of a new place everything that make life graceful and civilized.” Discuss this concept of “remaking” as part of the “burden” of the narrative.