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This 5 page report discusses two short stories and the ways in which they establish a narrator's voice, acknowledge a specific society's attitude about women, and reveals the ways in which women come to think of themselves in relationship to how they are viewed by others. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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a white South African woman who was one her nations most outspoken critics of apartheid and the white minority government that was so long in place. Nadine Gordimer (1923 -
), the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for Literature (the first South African to ever win the prize for literature), began her writing career in the 1940s, a
time when South African white supremacy was not challenged and a white woman, presumably, knew "her place." Ha Jin did not leave his native China until 1989, after the Tiananmen
Square massacre, when he emigrated to the United States. That fact, in and of itself, tells a lot about the man. Ha Jin currently teaches at Emory University. "Good Climate,
Friendly Inhabitants" The voice of the narrator is the voice of the primary character in Gordimers "Good Climate, Friendly Inhabitants." The reader understands that this is a woman who has
a certain measure of pride and a definite sense of superiority. After all, she is white, she has a job in a mans world, she is superior to both the
"boys" (black) who work as the "petrol attendants" and the "bunch of ducktails" (white mechanics) at the garage where she works. She readily admits that: "On the whole theyre not
a bad lot of natives; though you get a cheeky bastard now and then" (21). She is also quite proud of her figure and Gordimer has her open the story
by explaining that: "Im forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and legs. Ive got that very fair skin and my legs have gone mottled, like Roquefort
cheese" (21). Such an image is relatively unpleasant but it also gives the reader an awareness that the protagonist sees herself for who she is. As she explains: "I wouldnt
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