1. Literature and Defying Female Gender Roles
... else/ I do it exceptionally well" ("Lady Lazarus" 43-45), she is using snide sarcasm regarding how she really is not good at anything because she is unable to kill herself due to the control of her oppressor. She has no confidence in her own capabilities because, ... of concern for her looks when Diane explains how she wore jeans to a family dinner and her mother brought her upstairs in attempt to make Diane wear a dress, yet she refused and returned to join the rest of her kin. Judging from the description of her appearance, Diane ... spends the majority of her adult days painting, dri...
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