Based on everything you now know about the farmhouse, the farm, the family, and the objects that resided there. What would be the overall message of the poem “Abandoned Farmhouse”

Since there is no underlined item in the question, I will assume that the pronoun that we are dealing with is the pronoun HIM. This is an objective case because Catharina and him are the direct objects of the first sentence. The fellow competitors are the doer and they are the receiver of the action making them the direct object.