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An Analysis Of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
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Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres tells a dark tale of a corrupt
patriarchal society which operates through concealment. It is a story in
which the characters attempt to manipulate one another through the secrets
they possess and the subsequent revelation of those secrets. In her novel,
Smiley gives us a very simple moral regarding this patriarcha ....
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.... "slut" (181, 185).
It could be argued that many of the male characters in the novel
are suffering from a type of virgin/whore syndrome. As long as the women
remain docile receptacles they are "good"; when they resist or even
question masculine authority, they are "bad." Rose complains, "When we are
good girls and accept our circumstances.... |
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