SOURCE: "After Long Silence: Tillie Olsen's 'Requa'," in Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring, 1984, pp. 61-9.
In the following essay, Gelfant addresses the protagonist's need to find meaning and self-renewal during the Depression in Olson's short story "Requa."
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