Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres."
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Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" tells a dark tale of a corrupt patriarchal
society which operates through concealment. It is a story in which the characters
attempt to manipulate one another through the secrets they possess and the
subsequent revelation of those secrets. In her novel, Smiley gives us a very
simple moral regarding this patriarchal society: women who remain financially and
emotionally dependent on men decay; those able to break the economic and emotional
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into strength as she envisions a more reasonable (and perhaps more feminized) social order. She forces us to ask what ideals we are being sacrificed to... patriotism? Maintaining appearances? Maintaining patriarchal standards? Smiley speaks for all who have been marginalized when she states (through Jess), "Maybe to you it looked like I just vanished, but I was out there" (55)! WORKS CITED: Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres. New York: Fawcett Columbine, <Tab/>1991.
into strength as she envisions a more reasonable (and perhaps more feminized) social order. She forces us to ask what ideals we are being sacrificed to... patriotism? Maintaining appearances? Maintaining patriarchal standards? Smiley speaks for all who have been marginalized when she states (through Jess), "Maybe to you it looked like I just vanished, but I was out there" (55)! WORKS CITED: Smiley, Jane. A Thousand Acres. New York: Fawcett Columbine, <Tab/>1991.