A Feminist Interpretation of A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble
The article focuses on the feminist interpretation of the women images in A Summer Bird-Cage by British female writer Margaret Drabble. Drabble shows special concern for women’, especially intellectual women’s fate and living circumstances in the patriarchal society. Based on the feminism and historical and social background of feminist movements, the article analyzes intellectual young women’s struggle to control the fates of their own in terms of marriage and love, cause and family as well as the economic independence and spiritual independence. Through the life experience of women characters, Drabble exposes females’ predicament and dilemma in reality. It is truly hard for women to fulfill the social and domestic duties imposed on them. It is not wise for women to give up their own cause for the sake of family, while the society doesn’t make it easy for them to stave off marriage and live on their own. To be independent, therefore, is a prevailing slogan for feminists but an everlasting question for women to find feasible solutions.