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Title
Date of Award
1985
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department
English
First Advisor
[?]
First Committee Member
Louis H. Leiter
Second Committee Member
Charles Clerc
Abstract
The novel And Then The Letting Go involves protagonists Samantha Evans' simultaneous discoveries of her husband Don's infidelity, her own unplanned pregnancy, and the pregnancy of her unmarried, best friend Regina. These pivotal events act as emotional catalysts, ejecting Sam out of the passive restraints of her unhappy marriage into a frightening, yet exhilarating, life of active participation.
Within a nine month temporal framework, the novel explores a period of psychological gestation which results in the birth of her new Identity. Sam Evans passes from frozen passivity ("The nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs--") into a chilling confrontation with the "Hour of Lead." Sam Evans' "Letting Go" is not a giving over of control, but rather, a giving into life.
Pages
114
Recommended Citation
Bowers, Kim Silveira. (1985). And then the letting go. University of the Pacific, Thesis. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/486