Home Truths (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Mavis de Trafford Young
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Freedom, Children, Sexism, Gender roles, Europe or Europeans, World War II, Alienation, Canada or Canadians, Lifestyles
Form and Content
Home Truths is a collection of short stories concerning the experiences of young people from Canada. Mavis Gallant, an expatriate who moved to Europe in the early 1950’s, looks at the world through the eyes of a woman who has become completely independent in order to survive with her individuality intact. She assumes no fundamental change will ever occur in the state of inequality between the sexes and approaches the struggle not in a political arena, but in a very personal one. The stories in this collection loosely follow experiences from Gallant’s...
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