Representation of Female Bonding inTheCountry of the Pointed Firsby Sarah Orne Jewett

Abstract

This thesis examines the issue of female bonding inThe Country of the Pointed Firs(1896) of Sarah Orne Jewett. Jewett's narration is significant for American minor group who has lost their identities in the society. In this novel, Jewett combines the female relationship to share the pain and suffering and at the meantime, the unnamed protagonist in the novel combines to Mrs. Todd. In this concern, Jewett brings the American females and autonomy and their supremacy. The novel does not have direct sense of active bonding to negate patriarchal subjugation. Mrs. Todd keeps sympathy and empathy to her mother. Mrs. Blackett and Mrs. Todd have a mother-daughter relation to resist the patriarchal notion in the Southern Society of America in the late nineteenth century. It is argued that the novel embodies subject of female trouble and female friendship including the loss of identity.