![]() Jeanette’s adoptive mother is the most important figure in her life for the entirety of the novel, and she is Jeanette’s initial model for what it means to be a woman: polite, demure, godly, and self-denying. In this way, Winterson investigates the many stages of womanhood and argues for a more complicated understanding of what it means to be a woman in the world. She shows women at all stages of their lives grappling with emotional and intellectual quandaries, and struggling to live in a way that they feel is righteous, godly, or simply most convenient. In populating the story of her childhood primarily with women, Jeanette Winterson argues that womanhood is an endless becoming. ![]() In addition, the fantastical stories that occupy Jeanette’s dream life depict men as being somewhat flat: evil sorcerers, weary knights, or judgmental princes. ![]() With the exception of Jeanette’s pastor and her father (who is only mentioned in passing), the characters in the “real” story of the novel are overwhelmingly women. ![]() The world of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is ruled by-and mostly populated by-women. ![]()
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