An Analysis Of Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres tells a dark tale of a corrupt
patriarchal society which operates through concealment. It is a story in
which the characters attempt to manipulate one another through the secrets
they possess and the subsequent revelation of those secrets. In her novel,
Smiley gives us a very simple moral regarding this patriarchal society:
women who remain financially and emotionally dependent on men decay; those
able to break the economic and emotional chains develop as women and as hum
ans.
Roots of A Thousand Acres can be seen in numerous novel ....
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