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The Women's Room Study Guide

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by Marilyn French
About 5 pages (1,336 words)
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Techniques/Literary Precedents

The novel's narrative voice weaves readers into the group story. An authorial "I" speaks directly to readers as "you" and also includes them as fellow women in a conspiratorial "we." By the book's end it becomes clear that the "I" who narrates — and who walks alone on the New England beach at the beginning — has the same life history as the protagonist whose story she tells.

The blending of names suggests not only "Mira" and "Marilyn" but also, through "mirror," the reader who sees her own story in the shared women's voices.

The form of The Women's Room replicates women's experience with its circularity, repetition, and grinding accumulation of daily detail. There is no tidy plot of cause, effect and consequence; any story may be interrupted by quarreling children or a hungry.....

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The Women's Room from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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