Depiction of Women in Fiction

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper was part of a series of novels known collectively as "The Leatherstocking Tales," of which there are five, all produced between 1823 and 1841. The Last of the Mohicans was the second in the series in the order written, though the chronological order of the novels would be different, with the first story chronologically being the last of the five novels produced. Cooper was the first major American novelist, and his books are infused with an understanding of the colonial period, though Cooper himself was born not only after that era but after the founding of the country in 1776. In this and other novels in the series, Cooper presents images of the American Indian and relates them to the wilderness in which they live and to the civilization being forced upon them by the white settlers. Women had a strong role in the taming of the frontier, though they are often treated in fiction as flowe

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the story as taking place entirely through the consciousness of the governess. As we have been told, she is telling this story and it is then being reported to the reader through Mr. Douglas long after. Wilson believes she is the central consciousness in every way: Observe that there is never any evidence that anybody but the governess sees the ghosts. She believes that the children see them but there is never any proof that they do. The housekeeper insists that she does not see them; it is apparently the governess who frightens her. The children become hysterical; but this is evidently the governess's doing, too. Both Daisy and the governess are in some respects innocents. Their experience of the world has been limited, and another of James's female characters with a circumscribed experience is the heroine of Washington Square. Catherine is a very placid character, and we learn little about what she thinks of the events taking place around her. As with the other two women, the reader is left to write an interpretation on her based on how the reader might respond. Catherine is the pawn of two men, her lover and her father, and the father is as manipulative in his way as is the lover: His way of playing with the unfo
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