Her Mother's Daughter is consistent with feminist literary prescriptions in disdaining a tightly plotted structure which builds to a narrative climax.
Instead it uses a more organic pattern which follows the ebb and flow of events in the main characters' lives.
A more distinctive device is the use of a dual sequence to organize the narrative. Episodes in Belle's life alternate with events experienced by her daughter Anastasia at a corresponding stage of her life. Anastasia tells her own story in the first-person, while Belle's story is told from the more distant third-person point of view. This dual structure promotes the comparison of Anastasia's and her mother's respective childhood experiences.
Courtships, young-married financial problems, and other common.....
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