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In My Ántonia, both literal and what we might call “communal” families seem threatened. Some families disintegrate; others, while more or less intact, seem frayed at the edges. What threatens “family life”—in both its narrow and more generalized meanings—in the novel? Does Cather seem to believe that, given human selfishness (for example) and encroaching modernism, the collapse of the family is inevitable? Or does she suggest ways in which immediate and extended American families can stabilize themselves, can endure? INCLUDE INTRODUCTION with THESIS, BODY AND CONCLUSION