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Surfeminism In Toni Morrison's Surfacing

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rough David, “Surfacing draws attention to the oppression of women in a male defined order of hierarchical and oppositional roles that empower men at the expense of women” (Bouson 43). Anna accepts that David is disloyal to her and she cannot control him, “He’s got this little set of rules. If I break one of them I get punished, except that he keeps changing them so I’m never sure” (123). Various ironies exist about David in the view of ecofeminism and he is a stereotype, young American dropout. Making fun at Anna is the fixed thought of David and that is the imagination in his idle mind. David is trying to prove that he can control Anna’ for the concern of Joe, Anna involves in physical relationship with Joe. David never treats Anna with respect though she is his wife. He always underestimates the status of Anna and tortures her to remain naked in shooting for his Random Samples, associable with the dead bird. It is very strange and cruel for the …show more content…

Joe, David, Anna and the narrator spend nine days in the island and several few days of narrator alone in the island. They all stepped in the cabin of narrator’s father in search of narrator’s father. Joe is trying to find the traces of her missing father whereas her companions treat the days as a vacation. The crew is searching for him in the island and striving for the clues in his cabin to find about his whereabouts. As the mission of search begins, the memories of the past of the narrator emerges in mind. The memories of her childhood with her father and mother in the island, adult years, love affair with a married man and abortion of her child haunts her. The past memories are associated with the drawings of nature, birds and animals that are found in the cabin. She finds some of the traces of rock paintings in the

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