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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... friends as something reasonable that Whitey might respond to : " Listen , Whitey , says Jeannie , I've got some friends coming over and ... Whitey , please , they're not used to your kind of language " ( 38 ) . But something rings false ...
... friends as something reasonable that Whitey might respond to : " Listen , Whitey , says Jeannie , I've got some friends coming over and ... Whitey , please , they're not used to your kind of language " ( 38 ) . But something rings false ...
Page 24
... friends who are arriving soon ; and she has a connection to her very self ( though on a level deeper than she may be able to understand yet ) . It is not surprising that she tries to appeal to Whitey on the level of " please be good so ...
... friends who are arriving soon ; and she has a connection to her very self ( though on a level deeper than she may be able to understand yet ) . It is not surprising that she tries to appeal to Whitey on the level of " please be good so ...
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... friends and a future . We hear Carol excuse Parry's exclusion from rides to school : " She's already left ' or ' she'll make us We see Carol available for after - school socializing and for homework sessions while Parry must baby sit ...
... friends and a future . We hear Carol excuse Parry's exclusion from rides to school : " She's already left ' or ' she'll make us We see Carol available for after - school socializing and for homework sessions while Parry must baby sit ...
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