Progress in My Antonia is write about three of the characters- Antonia Shimerda Cuzak, Jim Burden, and Lena Lingard. These three, who could be the most important characters in the book, all have their own dreams of success, and all of them go down different paths to accomplish it. Weather they do or not depends on who you ask. However, all three of their lives had Progress play a major role at one time or another.

Antonia probably had the more amazing life of the three. Living with her family by the burdens after moving from the old country, she immediately got attached to Jim, getting the lessons and just having fun for many months. After her father killed himself, things changed. She became more serious and treated Jim like a little boy. She went to do hard farm work for her brother and other local farms. The...