SOURCE: "Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle: The Dialectics of Silence," in Frontiers, Vol. XV, No. 2, 1994, pp. 1-22.
In the following essay, Pfaelzer discusses the ways in which Olsen uses language and silence in Tell Me a Riddle to represent Eva's journey from alienation to engagement.
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