Adams, Alice | Barbara Frey Waxman (essay date 1990)
Barbara Frey Waxman (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "Beginning the Journey to Selfhood in Middle Age," in From the Hearth to the Open Road: A Feminist Study of Aging in Contemporary Literature, Greenwood Press, 1990, pp. 45-94.
[In the following excerpt, Waxman interprets "A Wonderful Woman," "Lost Luggage," and "To See You Again" as belonging to the Reifungsroman genre because they are stories in which middle-aged characters discover their self-identities and determine new directions for their lives. In the introduction to her book, Waxman defines Reifungsroman as the "novel of ripening—opposing its central tenet to the usual notion of deterioration in old age. "]
With good reason the short stories of American writer Alice Adams have appeared regularly in the prestigious annual O. Henry Award Collections. [In a review of To See You Again, Baltimore Sun, April 4, 1982] Robert Michael Green describes her...
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