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 16
... Whitey . " The narrative line flows through Whitey's perspective and in doing so is a tour de force in the creation of a state of drunkenness the reader can find almost palpable . The reader shares " Whitey's alcoholic loss of ...
... Whitey . " The narrative line flows through Whitey's perspective and in doing so is a tour de force in the creation of a state of drunkenness the reader can find almost palpable . The reader shares " Whitey's alcoholic loss of ...
Page 18
... Whitey's brotherhood on the sea . The ending of the italicized passage prepares us for Whitey's exit : " Now the decaying body , the body that was betraying him . And the memories to forget , the dreams to be stifled , the hopeless ...
... Whitey's brotherhood on the sea . The ending of the italicized passage prepares us for Whitey's exit : " Now the decaying body , the body that was betraying him . And the memories to forget , the dreams to be stifled , the hopeless ...
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... Whitey's money and Jeannie's accepting it , other than Whitey's drunkenness . Still unsatisfied , Jeannie utters the words that mark her firm detachment from Whitey , using " words that hurt , " and that probably are overheard by Whitey ...
... Whitey's money and Jeannie's accepting it , other than Whitey's drunkenness . Still unsatisfied , Jeannie utters the words that mark her firm detachment from Whitey , using " words that hurt , " and that probably are overheard by Whitey ...
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