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Female Sexuality & Desire in Sally Rooney’s Coming of Adulthood Novels Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney’s novels Conversations with Friends and Beautiful World, Where Are You focus on young women in their twenties over the course of a year in their lives and all the physical,
emotional, and mental developments that come with the passage of time. The protagonists of the
former are in their early twenties while the ones in the latter are in their late twenties which
allows Rooney to portray how a woman’s sexuality and desire changes over the course of her
life. This paper examines Rooney’s themes through the lenses of socio-economics, the coming of
adulthood genre, and female desire. Rooney’s characters must discover their sense of self when
who they are is so tightly linked to the other people in their lives.
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Let’s Try This Again: A Junior Reflects on COVID

Thinking back to my freshman year, two years ago, it all seems a bit like a dream. Wide-eyed at the sheer size of the campus, I struggled even to locate my classes. Jump forward six months to March 2020, and a slightly more adjusted me was sent home for the rest of the semester, along with everyone else.

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The Liberation of 19th Century Women

The protagonists of The Awakening by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are both women who are greatly affected by the constraints that society puts on their gender. In The Awakening, Edna Pontellier begins to govern her own actions and pursue her own desires. The unnamed protagonist of “The Yellow Wallpaper” struggles against her husband’s wishes for her and the beliefs of society. By the end of both stories, the women have overcome the societal restrictions placed on them and have gained their freedom in unexpected ways, but at great costs for both of them. Both of these stories are tragedies because the protagonists were young women with bright futures and heaps of potential that are now lost.

The Metamorphosis of Grete Samsa

In Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa is transformed into a large bug. This physical change causes the story to touch on what it means to be a part of a family that does not respect you, whether you are a human or not, and the isolation that comes with that. While the story does not end so happily for Gregor, the same cannot be said for his younger sister Grete. Over the course of the story’s three acts, the reader sees Grete gain confidence in herself and go after what she wants at the expense of Gregor, the male figure in her life that she has heavily relied upon until now. Through the character of Grete, the narrative explores the femininity and autonomy of women in the early twentieth century. By the end of the novella, Grete has transformed from a sobbing girl, into a confident woman in control of her life.