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Sometimes, when I have watched the bright beginning of a love story, when I have seen a common feeling exalted into beauty by imagination, generosity, and the flaming courage of youth, I have heard again that strange complaint breathed by a dying woman into the stillness of night, like a confession of the soul: 'Why must I die like this, alone with my mortal enemy.'"
This unforgettable novella takes readers on a poignant journey through a failing marriage and offers a tragic depiction of the marriage paradox: how to reconcile youth’s romantic exuberance with growing disillusionment, bitterness, and regret.
My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926. Wikipedia
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time. We were ' Through the eyes of a young girl, Nellie, we view the life of Myra, a legend in the Southern town where both were born. Myra has romantically abandoned the luxury she was born into to elope with the impoverished Oswald Henshawe. Twenty-five years later, Nellie is dazzled when she meets them living in the elegant poverty of an apartment frequented by singers, actors, poets - in the heart of the artistic community of old New York. But this shabby gentility gives way to real poverty in a jerrybuilt West Coast hotel, and the high purpose of Myra's life - love itself - is revealed to be the enemy within. A finely-wrought study of the great rewards and punishments love brings, MY MORTAL ENEMY is an exquisite example of Willa Cather's art.
Myra Henshawe's misadventures as her own worst enemy due to greed.
Willa Sibert Cather (1873 - 1947)Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947) American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I.
My Mortal Enemy Willa Cather My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926. Myra and her husband Oswald return to their fictional hometown of Parthia, Illinois, to visit their relatives. Nellie and Aunt Lydia then leave to spend the Christmas holiday in New York City with them. They live on Madison Square. They dine with Ewan Gray, a friend who has an infatuation with another actress, Esther Sinclair. Oswald receives silver-buttons for his shirt from an old Western acquaintance, and asks Lydia to pretend she gave them to him to thwart his wife's jealousy. Later Myra and Nellie go to the opera; in a lodge they spot an erstwhile friend of Myra's, which makes her sad. Later they take a hansom around a park and chance upon a rich acquaintance of Myra's, which leads her to be scornful over her own poverty. They spend Christmas dinner with friends of the Henshawes - both artists and people of privilege. Later they spend New Year's Eve with artists again. A few days later Nellie witnesses the Henshawes argue; the husband takes her out to lunch. Soon after, she and her aunt are to return to Illinois. On the train, they are joined by Myra, who has argued with her husband again and is going to visit a friend in Pittsburgh for a change of scenery.
My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather. My Mortal Enemy is the eighth novel by American author Willa Cather. It was first published in 1926.Myra and her husband Oswald return to their fictional hometown of Parthia, Illinois, to visit their relatives. Nellie and Aunt Lydia then leave to spend the Christmas holiday in New York City with them. They live on Madison Square. They dine with Ewan Gray, a friend who has an infatuation with another actress, Esther Sinclair. Oswald receives silver-buttons for his shirt from an old Western acquaintance, and asks Lydia to pretend she gave them to him to thwart his wife's jealousy. Later Myra and Nellie go to the opera; in a lodge they spot an erstwhile friend of Myra's, which makes her sad. Later they take a hansom around a park and chance upon a rich acquaintance of Myra's, which leads her to be scornful over her own poverty. They spend Christmas dinner with friends of the Henshawes - both artists and people of privilege. Later they spend New Year's Eve with artists again. A few days later Nellie witnesses the Henshawes argue; the husband takes her out to lunch. Soon after, she and her aunt are to return to Illinois. On the train, they are joined by Myra, who has argued with her husband again and is going to visit a friend in Pittsburgh for a change of scenery.Ten years later, Nellie moved into a shabby flat in a little town on the west coast, and bumps into the Henshawes. Myra is now bedridden and Oswald works full-time; their upstairs neighbours are atrociously noisy, regardless of Myra's illness. Nellie takes to visiting her at tea-time; she also takes her out by the sea. Myra expresses her regrets over her husband. (If she had not married him, her great-uncle would have bequeathed her his fortune. Instead, she eloped and he gave it away to the church.) Oswald takes to having lunch with a young woman. Once, Nellie asks her why she is so harsh on her husband, and Myra dismisses her. Shortly after, her condition gets worse. She dismisses everyone and runs away; she is found dead by the seaside the following day. Her husband expresses no remorse about his wife; he loved her despite her difficult conduct. After her death he moves to Alaska and later Nellie hears about his death.Myra Henshawe, maiden name Driscoll. She lives in New York City. She was brought up by her great uncle.Oswald Henshawe His mother was German and his father an Ulster Protestant who didn't get on with Myra's great-uncle. He went to Harvard and then New York City.Aunt Lydia She has three sons.Cousin BertNellie Birdseye. Later Myra calls her Mrs Casey.Willy Bunch, the janitor's son.John Driscoll, Myra's father. He died when she was very young.Uncle RobEwan Gray, a stage actor. He is Scottish and was reportedly wild in his youth.Esther Sinclair, a woman of good family whom Ewan likes.Mrs Hewes, Madame Modjedska's housekeeper.Anne Aylward, a poet.Jefferson de Angelais, a stage actor.Helena Modjeska, Countess Bozenta-Chlapowska.Emelia, a Polish singer.Coquelin, a singer.The Poindexters, upstairs neighbours.Biddy Stirling, a librarian.Father Fay, a Protestant parson.Billy, the son of a friend of Myra's, who killed himself at age 23 because of a 'sordid love affair'.A young woman whom Oswald goes to the restaurant with while his wife is ill.The Bible is mentioned with regard to the Sacred Heart.Literature is mentioned with regard to Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, William Shakespeare's King Lear, Richard II and King John, Heinrich Heine, and Walt Whitman.Drama is mentioned with regard to Sarah Bernhardt's Hamlet.Music is mentioned with regard to Jean de Reszke, Helena Modjeska, Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet, Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, and Franz Schubert.It has been suggested that the novel 'represents the bitter apotheosis of the issues of exile Cather worked on all of her life'.