Out of Africa | Dinesen's Portrait of Herself
In this essay, the author focuses on Dinesen's portrait of herself as an independent, nontraditional woman in Out of Africa.
The film version of Out of Africa presents Karen Bhxen as a courageous woman who can shoot lions alongside her lover Denys Finch-Hatton and withstand the long separations from her husband Baron Bror Blixen. The film portrays Blixen/Dinesen to be an independent woman, but one who has had that independence thrust on her after first her husband's then her lover's desertion, leaving her to fend for herself on her African coffee plantation. Several scenes show her pleading with one or the other to stay and help her adapt to her new home.
In her autobiographical novel, however, Dinesen...
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