The Accidental Tourist | Traditional and Nontraditional Roles of the Female Characters in The Accidental Tourist
In the following essay, the author examines the traditional and nontraditional roles of the female characters in The Accidental Tourist.
In her article in the New York Times Book Review, Katha Pollitt takes an overview of Anne Tyler's work and concludes that her fiction does not reveal a firm sense of time or place. She argues that Tyler's novels "are modern in their fictional techniques, yet utterly unconcerned with the contemporary moment as a subject, so that, with only minor dislocations, her stories could just as well have taken place in the twenties or thirties. The current school of feminist-influenced novels seems to have passed her by completely: her women are strong, often stronger than the men in their...
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