Womanhood In Esther Society

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Esther even got to witness lesbian relationship that wasn’t Open her, this affair included Joanne with Dee Dee. Including the double standard for women and men Esther Society imposes different expectations for female and mail career. Women are expected to devote their time spent being homemakers rather than going after their dreams. Her mother persistence in having her learning shorthand implies that she Believe in traditional email character careers. But I’m the other end of the spectrum there was a light because characters such as Dr. Quinn, Jay Cee and Philomena Guinea demonstrates an alternative career path outside the domestic Society and also wants her to do extremely well above average. Majority off the men introduced in this novel reinforces gender any quality, characters such as Buddy and Marco. Esther believe that there is …show more content…

“She cannot quite fit herself into the patterns that she sees as available to her. In looking at the future that her society seems to have planned for her she realizes that if she embraces it she will be growing up grotesquely.”
Being a conflicted adolescence transitioning to the adult world, Esther rejected majority of the models of womanhood that is offered to her while she struggles to define her own ideas of what it means to be an authentic woman. According to the article Plath’s bell jar as Female Bildungsroman by Linda Wagner “the bell jar is the traditional bildungsroman, the character’s escape to a city images the opportunity to find self as well as truths about life.” In society today, most adolescent find it more convenient and necessary to conform to social environment when it comes to gender roles, individuals either live a double life and according to Erikson they battle role versus identity confusion, trying

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