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This 10 page paper discusses two works by Gertrude Stein: "The Making of Americans" and "Tender Buttons" Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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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; it was during this extended period that she produced "the idiosyncratic and experimental poems, plays, word-portraits, and novels which admirers regarded as innovations in the
use of language and critics denounced as childish twaddle" (Mellow, 1980). Mellows remark indicates that there is no middle of the road with Stein; people either love her or think
she stinks. Her place in literature was insecure for a long time as well: "Throughout her career she was to remain a self-proclaimed genius whom the broad public and many
critics regarded as a coterie writer, easily dismissed as the Mama of Dada, or The Mother Goose of Montparnasse" (Mellow, 1980). Despite these dismissals, she was able to sustain a
reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their parents death, and when he entered Harvard, she enrolled in
Radcliffe (Mellow, 1980). Her literary output at this time "consisted of a number of indifferently written themes" full of "wayward syntax" (Mellow, 1980). But she also developed "an abiding interest
in psychology" that would become apparent in her writing (Mellow, 1980). Although she attended Johns Hopkins with the intention of pursuing a career in medicine, she found herself "unconsolably bored
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