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This 10 page paper examines two of Gertrude Stein's books, "The Making of Americans" and "Tender Buttons," and argues that the books are incomprehensible if approached in the normal way, but make sense as a linguistic experiment in form, rather than meaning. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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her personality than her writing, which is difficult and so dense as to incomprehensible at times. This paper examines two of her works, Tender buttons and The making of Americans.
Discussion Stein had a very unconventional upbringing, including living abroad for five years as a child, that surely contributed to her growth into what we might call a citizen of
the world. "She needed two civilizations, she claimed: America had made her, but it was in Paris that she became a writer" (Mellow, 1980). She produced most of her vast
volume of work while she lived abroad, including the books we are considering here. In college, Stein developed "an abiding interest in psychology" that would become apparent in her writing
(Mellow, 1980); and although she attended Johns Hopkins with the idea of pursuing a career in medicine, she soon gave that up and followed Leo to Paris, where she established
a "salon" and became one of the leading literary figures of the day. In the decade before WWI, Steins work was very experimental, and she continued in that vein for
many years. Because she didnt publish her works in the order she wrote them, its not possible to trace her growth as a writer; that is, we cant say that
this book is better than the previous one because she had refined her technique or something similar. We have to deal with her on her own terms. However, when it
comes to the two novels were examining, "critics marked The making of Americans: Being a history of a familys progress ... as a milestone" (Gertrude Stein, 2005). The book is
a "900-page novel without dialogue or action" and not surprisingly, "held no commercial interest and went unpublished for seventeen years" (Gertrude Stein, 2005). The novel began as a story of
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