No doubt this author is acquainted with prototypic, strong, female protagonists who forge identities socially beyond maternal and marital bonds.
Fly Away Home recalls Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929); parallels, however, are perhaps nowhere clearer than between Piercy's Daria, and Ibsen's Nora in A Doll's House (1879). Like Nora, Daria is demeaned and patronized by a husband who keeps her "in the dark"; like Nora, she learns of his.....
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