How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again | Critical Overview
When The Wheel of Love was published in 1970, Joyce Carol Oates was already an established writer of fiction and poetry. What was still open to debate was whether she was a serious ‘‘literary’’ writer or just a popular one. As she has often pointed out in interviews, this argument is based on the sexist premise that such a prolific female writer must have aspired to popularity instead of art. The stories in Wheel of Love continued to divide critical opinion, but in the decades since, several of them, including ‘‘How I Contemplated,’’ have taken their place...
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