Discuss how realism affects the way a reader might approach the different issues in My Antonia such as suicide, the representation of the harshness of the prairie, or even Jim's views of life, etc.

Since I have not read this story, I searched Google under the key words "My Antonia" to get these possible sources:

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/antonia/section1.html
http://www.americanliterature.com/MA/MA00.HTML
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/myantonia/
http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ma/index.htm

Since you are the reader, the responses to this and your other post must come from you.

However, I hope these summaries might help you discover things you might have missed while reading the book. Thanks for asking.