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The Constrained Self-Voice of the Female—On Fiona and Marian in “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”
PU Ya-zhu
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2019.02.005
Officers’ College of CAPF, Chengdu, P. R. China
Fiona and Marian, the two female roles of Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” always catch little attention of the readers who instead pay more attention to the male protagonist Grant. In actuality, the two female roles share a common point which needs readers and critics to carefully analyze and re-evaluate. That is both female roles’ self-voice which is constrained against the man-center traditional perspective. This essay just aims to reanalyze and elaborate the two female roles by using the methods and theories of feminist criticism in order to discover and release the constrained self-voice of the female.
Fiona, Marian, “The Bear Came Over the Mountain”, constrained self-voice of the female, feminist criticism
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