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 19
... passed out . Olsen deftly describes the act of fainting : .. He starts up to go , but it seems he lurched and fell , for the sickness springs at last and consumes him . And now Allie is sitting with him . C'mon , sit up and eat , Whitey ...
... passed out . Olsen deftly describes the act of fainting : .. He starts up to go , but it seems he lurched and fell , for the sickness springs at last and consumes him . And now Allie is sitting with him . C'mon , sit up and eat , Whitey ...
Page 20
... passing out , the doctor arriving . Since she has left , Jeannie has missed most of these events , but when she returns , her righteous , embarrassed indignation changes to fit her new understanding that Whitey was sick this time , not ...
... passing out , the doctor arriving . Since she has left , Jeannie has missed most of these events , but when she returns , her righteous , embarrassed indignation changes to fit her new understanding that Whitey was sick this time , not ...
Page 51
... passing that the Mexicans keep the little girl Rosita's body at the house , even though " it is against the health laws . " As a visiting nurse , Jeannie would have had to choose not to report the family for this violation . In her ...
... passing that the Mexicans keep the little girl Rosita's body at the house , even though " it is against the health laws . " As a visiting nurse , Jeannie would have had to choose not to report the family for this violation . In her ...
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