ENGL 2593 : Final Paper
Document Summary
"the joy of wendy hornsby"s books has always been as much her characters and the relationships among them as the story itself. Wendy hornsby is the edgar award winning author who writes novels and story stories much like other short story writers. Rattlesnakes tells the story of a woman running from her past like many other women that we have read about in class. Hornsby"s story is valuable and fits into the study of women"s short stories because of the common themes of women being oppressed by a villainous man, the character type of a redeemable murderer, and plots for revenge. We have been labeled the weaker sex by men and are thought of as more fragile than men. In literature, there are countless women that are oppressed like the narrator in the yellow wallpaper and minnie. Wright in a jury of her peers. these women are similar to lise and.
