Hesitating, Lost, Reborn: Analysis of Female Images on “When We Were Orphans”

Zixu Luo, Peifang Zhang

Abstract


“When We Were Orphans” is a novel written by Ishiguro Kazuo, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the novel, Banksy’s mother Diana, his girlfriend Sarah, and his adopted daughter Jennifer are representatives of different female types. Based on feminist literary criticism, this article interprets figures of the three females with distinct personalities and reveals the inevitability of their fates.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22158/jecs.v8n2p59

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