Female Crime & Punishment I was talking with my wife about…
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Female Crime & Punishment
I was talking with my wife about our favorite books and we realized there's a subgenre of literature that many of our most loved books belong to: first-person narrator out of step with society who struggles with the psychological implications of that.
\* Crime & Punishment
\* Invisible Man
\* Catcher in the Rye (as a YA version of that)
But we couldn't think of a single example written by a woman and/or featuring a female narrator. Our theory is that social norms made such a character too difficult to write a believable plot for until \~75 years ago? The closest we could think of would be Mrs Dalloway, but she believed in her place within society, so she didn't knowingly struggle against that.
The Bell Jar almost does this, but there's something about the autobiography of it that makes the story feel less universal. It's an important part of this subgenre we made up that the character be an imagined one.
Can anyone think of a book like these with a female protagonist?
#entertainment
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I was talking with my wife about our favorite books and we realized there's a subgenre of literature that many of our most loved books belong to: first-person narrator out of step with society who struggles with the psychological implications of that.
\* Crime & Punishment
\* Invisible Man
\* Catcher in the Rye (as a YA version of that)
But we couldn't think of a single example written by a woman and/or featuring a female narrator. Our theory is that social norms made such a character too difficult to write a believable plot for until \~75 years ago? The closest we could think of would be Mrs Dalloway, but she believed in her place within society, so she didn't knowingly struggle against that.
The Bell Jar almost does this, but there's something about the autobiography of it that makes the story feel less universal. It's an important part of this subgenre we made up that the character be an imagined one.
Can anyone think of a book like these with a female protagonist?
#entertainment
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