Women's Ethical Coming-of-age: Adolescent Female Characters in the Prose Fiction of Tillie OlsenThis work examines Tillie Olsen's four short stories in Tell Me A Riddle, and her novel fragment Yonnondio: From the Thirties in terms of the ethical development of the adolescent female characters. The study uses the ethics of responsibility and care as identified by Carol Gilligan to investigate each young female character's struggle to grow, to make her place in the world, and to remain in relationship with herself and others. The book contextualizes the exclusion of the ethics of care from the literary canon and argues for inclusion of multiple ethical modes. |
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Page 66
... Emily's first remembered words are full of reasons to stay home from nursery school : " Momma you look sick , Momma . I feel sick . Momma , the teachers aren't there today , they're sick . Momma we can't go , there was a fire there last ...
... Emily's first remembered words are full of reasons to stay home from nursery school : " Momma you look sick , Momma . I feel sick . Momma , the teachers aren't there today , they're sick . Momma we can't go , there was a fire there last ...
Page 70
... Emily unwittingly exchanges one form of marginalization for another " ( 266 ) . By contrast , Helen Pike Bauer reads Emily's talent for mime as one of the developing " strengths " Emily shares with her mother : " Emily and her mother ...
... Emily unwittingly exchanges one form of marginalization for another " ( 266 ) . By contrast , Helen Pike Bauer reads Emily's talent for mime as one of the developing " strengths " Emily shares with her mother : " Emily and her mother ...
Page 94
... Emily's mom was in control , Emily would've been a happier child . She might've shown her more affection . It seems to me Emily had to fend for herself as so many of us have to . My mother can't be there all of the time and neither ...
... Emily's mom was in control , Emily would've been a happier child . She might've shown her more affection . It seems to me Emily had to fend for herself as so many of us have to . My mother can't be there all of the time and neither ...
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