In Alice Walker's "Be Nobody's Darling" we see her view on life as an outcast and how being an outcast will change your life. Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Jhumpa Lahiri all present us with stories about women and how they are outcasts in their society. Women were all seen as strange and peculiar. They are never understood nor are they even given a chance to redeem themselves for a wrong doing. In life if these "outcasts" were giving a chance to explain themselves and their ways of life, maybe they wouldn't be considered and outcast.
In "No Name Woman" we see where as a result of a woman going against what is acceptable in society she is shunned from her family. Because the aunt becomes an outcast we see her, in a sort of way, losing her freedom to live as she chooses. But on the other hand now that she has escaped from her life she has a new freedom. In "Fleur" we see Fleur Pillager living the life of an outcast who realizes that is how she is and she receives a sense of freedom and security from it. If she tried to change herself she would lose who she was and in a sense lose her freedom to be different. Lastly, in "Mrs Sen's" we see her being an outcast to her surroundings because of her husband being in control and also her being so far away from her home where she was comfortable.
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