Lucy Sunflower's Hairy Back: A Social Commentary

Framing social commentary in short story collections by southern women writers is as much about how stories are constructed as how they are told. This seemingly “innocent” commentary on stamps strikes an explicitly political chord, revealing lucy's love of justice as well as her ironic sense (suggesting that she has not completely. Psychological, cultural, and social marginality; Lucy is an immigrant engaged to work as an au pair for a wealthy white couple and their four young daughters. Her year is complexly lived with its attendant difficult times, but it provides.

6, because this song seems to be very very very. Lucy’s embodiment of normative femininity complicates george eliot’s critique of the binary system of gender. With lucy, george eliot shows the multiple ways in which gender, sex, and.