Title
"I’d Rather Not Hear": Women and Men in Conversation in "Cat in the Rain" and "The Sea Change"
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Argues against critics who sympathize with the male characters rather than acknowledge the complex gender relationships at work in these marriage tales. Tyler draws on object relations theory, linguistic research, Adrienne Rich’s cultural analysis, and Virginia Woolf’s feminist theory in A Room of One’s Own (1929) to demonstrate how both female characters object to serving as mere reflections of their male counterparts’ phallocentric desires.
Date
2002
Pages
70-80
COinS
Citation
Broer, Lawrence R. and Gloria Holland, eds. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.