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What does the theme in this passage tell you about Antonia?

A. She has had a difficult life
B. She needs education.
C. She is innocent

D. She is a hard worker.

Read this excerpt from the novel My Antonia, by Willa Cather.

Grandmother spoke feelingly. "When she (Antonia)
first came to this country, Frances, and had that
genteel old man to watch over her, she was as pretty
a girl as ever I saw. But, dear me, what a life she's led,
out in the fields with those rough threshers! Things
would have been very different with poor Antonia if
her father had lived."