Of Women and Water Steven Yale Sussman " with a slight nod

" with a slight nod to Robert Frost

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Of Women and Water Steven Yale Sussman " with a slight nodToo often, when women in literary texts come of age, they die. Instead of entering an adulthood full of possibility, female characters time and again follow the path charted by Ophelia and drown, either literally in waters they cannot navigate or metaphorically in a society that does not allow them to construct their own stories. Eudora Welty, however, rewrites this standard female coming of age story by repeating a specific key scene. More than a