ResistingtheClichés:AFeministReadingofJamesJoyce’s‘Eveline’

From Chaucer’sTheCanterburyTalesonward,femalecharactersappearedinall genresofliteraturebuttheroletheyaretraditionallyassigned,rarelypresentedthemwithoutanyprejudices.AsSandraM.GilbertandSusanGubar(1979)assert,thereexisttwoprincipalstereotypicalimagesofwomen, theangelinthehouse and themadwomanintheattic .InoneofthestoriesofDubliners,acollectionofshortstorieswritten byJamesJoycein1914,readersreadabout,agirlnamedEveline,whoisindecisiveaboutwhetheraccordingtotheclichésofherpatriarchalsocietyorresistingthem all.ThisstudybyusingFeminism literarytheoryasitsapproach,attemptstoshowthatwhenEvelinewasstandinghesitantlyonthequay,shesucceeds(althoughforsomeshortmoments)atfindingherrightfulplacewhilenotsuccumbingtotherulesofapatriarchalsociety

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JamesJoyce ، Dubliners ، feminism inWesternliteratur