Women Writers

Based solely on our reading in this class, it would appear as if women writers deal with less serious issues than male writers, but when novels from both sexes are stripped of their critic's ribbons, it becomes clear that the majority deal with social dilemmas, and the only perceivable difference is in the context. In the Bean Trees, Kingsolver used snide humor to deal with such dilemmas as large as the repercussions Native Americans have faced as a result of American imperialism, and in Farenheit 451, Bradbury used symbolism and irony to warn people of technology's power to enslave us; Both are very serious issues, and many parallels could be drawn between the two.