Herland | Characters
The three men who visit Herland represent three distinct stances taken by men visa-vies women. While the attitudes of both Jeff Margrave and Van are more palatable than Terry's, none, it seems, is perfect. At the most conservative extreme, Terry, even at the story's conclusion, views women as little more than objects created for his use and enjoyment. When the group first hears rumors of a country populated only by women, Terry "had visions of a sort of sublimated summer resort—just Girls and Girls and Girls." Though couched in the opaque language of sex employed in published works at...
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