ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Susan Gubar, Sandra Gilbert, Webster'S Dictionary
24 Jan 2019
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Female coming-of-age stories: the secret garden, part 2. Male vs. female attributes: first half of the novel: mary seems male and colin seems female , second half of the novel: mary performs female behaviour and colin performs male . Male: culture, active, strong, public, reason, speech, spirit. Female: nature, passive, weak, domestic, emotion, silence, body. Colin"s mother: present even after death, physical appearances, picture of her, covered with curtain (135), pulled back (268, colin"s father as bad parent. Susan as model mother: present, alive, unites colin and mother, stereotypical: wise, reliable, nurturing, giving, selfless, happy with role, beyond stereotype: interventions in archibald"s private affairs, sense of home and peace. Mary to colin: you stop! she almost shouted. I wish everybody would run out of the house and let you scream yourself to death! Half of what ails you is hysterics and temper just hysterics hysterics hysterics! and she stamped each time she said it. (201: you didn"t feel a lump!
