A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

Abstract: This 8 page paper provides a comparative view of the female protagonists in a number of stories. In particular, this paper relate the fact that Willa Cather, Kate Chopin and Zora Neal Hurston all created complex female characters who were challenged both by their personal culture and by the cultural subjugation of their families and social perspective. Antonia, of Willa Cather's My Antonia, Janie Crawford of Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watchin' God, and Edna Pontillier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening all serve to demonstrate the conflicted nature of female identities and the social and cultural expectations in these novels. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

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Catagory: American Literature

Subcatagory: Literature

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