SOURCE: "The Mistakes of a Night: Double Standards in She Stoops to Conquer," in Multiple Personality and the Disintegration of Literary Character: From Oliver Gold-smith to Sylvia Plath, St. Martin's Press, 1983, pp. 38-46.
In the essay below, Hawthorn contends that competing value systems in society are reflected in the divided personalities of the characters in She Stoops to Conquer.
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