WOMEN’S EVOLUTION INTO HIGHER FORMS OF BEING IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AS EVINCED IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S HESTER AND PHOEBE, WILLIAM FAULKNER’S CADDY AND JOHN STEINBECK’S CATHY
WOMEN’S EVOLUTION INTO HIGHER FORMS OF BEING IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AS EVINCED IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S HESTER AND PHOEBE, WILLIAM FAULKNER’S CADDY AND JOHN STEINBECK’S CATHY

Summary/Abstract: Women’s role and position within literature has been under constant shift and improvement, leading to contemporary times when they share an acknowledged status of freedom and outspokenness. Throughout American literature of the first half of the nineteenth century we find a pervasive belief that the American woman, since the settling of the continent, had somehow evolved into a higher form of being. We herby consider that some American writers, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner or John Steinbeck might belong to the category expressing this belief in their description of their female characters, be they Puritan or contemporary women.

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