The Country of the Pointed Firs | Visions of Time in The Country of the Pointed Firs
In the following excerpt, Graham discusses the representations of time in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Feminist theory has recently offered new perspectives on Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs. Much of this recent scholarship is based on the work of Nancy Chodorow and Carol Gilligan, who argue that females and males, because of socially constructed experiences, may espouse different values and speak in different voices. Briefly stated, the feminine perspective is cyclical, inductive, and communal; the masculine perspective linear, deductive, and hierarchical. Elizabeth Ammons argues that the narrative structure of The Country of the Pointed Firs is...
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