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Rose’s Breast Cancer in A Thousand Acres
Pete, representing erratic male rage in the novel, has a history of abusing Rose. This climaxes when he breaks her arm. It follows a terrible logic that since male rage hurts her body, so does her own, the impetus of which is provided by the patriarchal system. Ginny's description of Pete fits Rose equally well, with an anger that "would be quiet, but corrosive, erupting at odd times" (31).
Rose's breast cancer symbolizes the way she is literally consumed with anger (the cancer eats at her flesh, consuming her body). Anger is the only way she knows to deal with her father, her husband, men and the system they represent: "We're not going to be sad. We're going to be angry until we die. It's the only hope."(354) She doesn't see that anger is destructive, that anger is in fact why things have turned out the way they have.
She is continually reminded of the toll her anger takes on her body, as her arm unconsciously strays to the lost muscles under her other arm, by the lost breast. Nevertheless, she ignores the signs, anger has become a part of her body. The fact that this act resembles a posture signifying an attempt to contain her heart -her overflowing anger- suggests this, as does the fact that she especially does this when she is angry: "She pushed her hair back with her hand, then put her fist on her hip, defiant. Except that on the way down, her fingers fluttered over the vanished breast, the vanished muscles." (151)
Her body, then, enacts her strategy. If you can't beat them, join them. If the system is based on egocentricity, cruelty, coldness and rage, then those will be her weapons. When Jess backs out of farming their land, she says: "When it came right down to building on something that we had, it scared him to build on death and bad luck and anger and destruction" (352). The underlying assumption of her statement is that it is impossible to challenge all the death and destruction, so one might as well turn it to one's own advantage.
This strategy, ironically, turns her into what the patriarchy has accused hers and Ginny's intertextual counterparts -Regan and Goneril- of; an inhuman half-man. When she reigns supreme over the thousand acres, she has turned into her own worst nightmare: her father.
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“Royal Beatings” begins in the imperfect tense with Rose telling us what her life was like. Her attitude and her circumstances are immediately revealed. Her mother had died when she was still a baby, and so she grew up with “only Flo for a mother.” Her father was not readily available and somewhat scared Rose. Rose loves her family but is not like them; she is clumsy instead of clever and had a need to “pursue absurdities.” Characters are revealed and emotions are discovered but the story does not become about action until nine pages into the story. Then, the reader is thrust into present tense action. Rose vividly describes a Saturday of which she and Flo argue and irritate one another. Rose’s father is called in from his shed by Flo and so he gives Rose what the r...
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It becomes a new work as she creates a story about liberation for Ginny and Rose. Two characters, who were for the most part neglected in Shakespeare’s, find their own inner peace outside of a life dominated by males. This modern twist adds a new layer to this work and helps form a separation from the play. With a new focus to Ginny and Rose, the readers see and sympathize their struggles with their father. Larry, at first glance a senile old man, is painted in a more sinister light. Ginny and Rose were not bad daughters. When they agreed to the division of the land, there may have been ulterior motives, but it is not simple enough to reduce them to bad daughters. Their actions were responses to the patriarchal environment that they were living in. Rose and Ginny end up escaping this system of patriarchy. They start by resisting their father’s demands and wishes. They seal the end of his reign when they win the lawsuit filed against them for the land. Following this lawsuit, “there could no reconciliation now” (Smiley 326). Larry’s system of patriarchy had fallen, and was damaged beyond repair. Larry’s fall from grace ended with a heart attack in the cereal aisle. A death that his two daughters did not care about. Ginny barely affords three sentences about his death in her narration of this story. An equally unglamorous
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