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In the Shadow of the Mother: The Politics of Family in Maeve Brennan’s “The Visitor”
The Visitor revolves around the young Anastasia King returning to Dublin from Paris after the death of her mother who ran away from her husband six years prior (Brennan). Throughout the story, Brennan writes about many different familial relationships that have great impact on Anastasia and the King family. The story particularly focuses on four parent-child/grandparent-grandchild relationships that revolve around isolationism and the destruction of the family. Angie Henderson, Sandra Harmon, and Harmony Newman write that families “exist in two spheres, both public and private.” This necessitates the considering of the public expectation of gender roles (Henderson, et. al. 512). Although the Irish Free State seriously restricted the public role of women, there was still a public expectation on them to be perfect mothers.
Window to the Self: Excavating Identity in Contemporary Poetry
The Collection of poetry, to me, has always been a snippet of, or window into, identity; but in recent years this seems to have become a truly inescapable facet of the current condition and direction of the Collection.
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