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"We're leaving,' he hissed. "I'm taking you straight to the hospital." When Susan rose shakily to her feet, uncontrollable diarrhea had stained her dress and dripped from the chair. White with fury, Charles Hay took her by the arm and led her slowly from the hall." (Melville 134)
The work again intones an incredible journey through what a women sees a man thinking. The disconnectedness of Susan from her husband is so complete that her voice is only marginal in the work, but the message is clear in the literary expression of her secreted activities. The masculine is represented as the feminist idea of greater association with industry than home, to the peril of loving relationships. The writing demonstrates a character who is wholly disconnected from ethics in love and life, and in s sense is a demonized masculine archetype. In the Yellow Wallpaper (1892) the expression of the feminie as helpless is complete, in How to Talk to a Hunter (1990) the modern assessment of how to interpret the messages of a relationship is discussed universally and in the Sparkling ***** the complete disconnection of an individual man from his wife is detailed as an example of the disconnect the patriarchal society has from the feminine.
Conclusion:
Among these three works are three completely differing context and writing styles, though they can be drawn together through two divergent and connected sets of feminist literary criticism to be shown to demonstrate communication barriers in relationships between men and women. This work creates a sense of the whole of the works value by assessing each work with both the ideals of great love for the expression of women through literature and the
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Works Cited
Cavalcanti, Ildney. "Utopias of/f Language in Contemporary Feminist Literary Dystopias." Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 152.
Fludernik, Monika. The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1993.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) available online at http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman/The_Yellow_Wallpaper/The_Yellow_Wallpaper_p1.html.
Herndl, Diane Price. Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Houston, Pam "How to Talk to a Hunter" in Cowboys Are My Weakness New York: Washington Square Press. 1990.
Kaplan, Sydney Janet. "2 Varieties of Feminist Criticism." Making a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Gayle Greene and Coppelia Kahn. London: Routledge, 1991. 37-58.
Melville, Pauline. "The Sparkling *****" in the Migration of Ghosts. New York: Bloomsbury. 1998.
Moi, Toril. Sexual / Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. London: Routledge, 2002.
Works Cited
Cavalcanti, Ildney. "Utopias of/f Language in Contemporary Feminist Literary Dystopias." Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 152.
Fludernik, Monika. The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness. London: Routledge, 1993.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) available online at http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman/The_Yellow_Wallpaper/The_Yellow_Wallpaper_p1.html.
Herndl, Diane Price. Invalid Women: Figuring Feminine Illness in American Fiction and Culture, 1840-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
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