Women form the backbone of her stories. Within a framework tightly controlled by patriarchal and religious tradition, Freeman’s women strive for an understanding of the roles assigned to them. Through their relationships and responses, they test the limits of their freedom and learn the moral and personal consequences of rejecting or acquiescing to the roles the larger community has imposed on them.
The rebellious woman became a key these in Freeman’s stories and a major image in her gallery of fictional portraits of women. A Web of Relationship reveals how she sharply delineates the lives and personalities of women who accept of reject the ideal Victorian code of “true womanhood” as mother and wife. This study of Freeman’s stories throws
Women form the backbone of her stories. Within a framework tightly controlled by patriarchal and religious tradition, Freeman’s women strive for an understanding of the roles assigned to them. Through their relationships and responses, they test the limits of their freedom and learn the moral and personal consequences of rejecting or acquiescing to the roles the larger community has imposed on them.
The rebellious woman became a key these in Freeman’s stories and a major image in her gallery of fictional portraits of women. A Web of Relationship reveals how she sharply delineates the lives and personalities of women who accept of reject the ideal Victorian code of “true womanhood” as mother and wife. This study of Freeman’s stories throws
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A Web of Relationship: Women in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781604730227 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
Publication date: | 03/03/2008 |
Pages: | 186 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |