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A 6 page paper which looks at the format of Lee Smith's Fair and Tender Ladies as series of letters, and demonstrate how the main character both reflects her culture and her own growth through her writing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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concerns and feelings in a non-judgmental forum. Lately, the epistolary novel has again come into popularity in works such as Lee Smith?s Fair and Tender Ladies, but these contemporary novels
attack ?women?s issues? in a quite different way. Ms. Campbell states: ?Unlike the eighteenth-century sentimental examples, however, the epistolary novels emerging now radically rewrite womens lives in a postmodern genre.
Although such novels have always been about sexual politics, contemporary ones are more blatantly political in theme and more radical in form? (Campbell, 332). This paper will look at Fair
and Tender Ladies as an epistolary novel, and demonstrate how the main character?s letters both reflect herself as a citizen of her Appalachian culture, and allow her to grow as
a person. Ivy Rowe, an Appalachian mountain girl, loves to write letters. They are both her method of self-expression -- some of her letters she does not even send --
and her sole source of contact with a world much larger than the environs of Majestic, Virginia. In her earliest letter she is about ten years old, and her letter
is at once indicative of a child?s spelling and a mountain woman?s pronunciation. She is, however, a born poet; in this very first letter -- to a Dutch pen pal
who never writes back -- she says that the name of her would-be friend ?tastes sweet in my mouth like honey or cane or how I picture the fotched-on candy
from Mrs. Browns book about France, candy wich mimicks roses? (Smith, 11). The sheer excitement of being able to write to someone so far away and so far removed, to
so ingenuously share the details of her life with another person who might find them interesting, spills over onto the page like a fountain; we later learn that Mrs. Brown,
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