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An Analysis Of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
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....hrough concealment. It is a story in
which the characters attempt to manipulate one another through the secrets
they possess and the subsequent revelation of those secrets. In her novel,
Smiley gives us a very simple moral regarding this patriarchal society:
women who remain financially and emotionally dependent on m.... Part 2 of Paper
.... to talk about
'my po int of view.' When my father asserted his point of view, mine
vanished" (176). When she makes the "mistake" of crossing her father, she
is referred to as a "bitch," "whore," and "slut" (181, 185).
It could be argued that many of the male characters in the novel
are suffering from a type of virgin/whore syndrome. As long as the women
remain docile receptacles they are "good"; when they resist or even
question masculine authority, they are "bad." Rose complains, "W.... |
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