Role of Women Protagonists in the Short Stories of Mavis Gallant
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Mavis Gallant was a well known Canadian short story writer. She wrote many stories, essays, reviews, plays. Gallant was deprived from the love of her parents in her childhood. After the death of her father and mothers remarriage, she was sent to seventeen different boarding schools. She had experienced a difficult childhood. She hated her mother the most and therefore after completing her studies she decided to stay alone. The mental trauma she faced made her very sympathetic in nature. She became very serious on the issues related to women. Gallant depicted the plight of women in the form of a story. Her many stories seem to be semi autobiographical but she denies completely. This paper is an attempt to bring forth few prevalent problems stated in the short stories of Canadian women.
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