Mermin is adamant that Goblin Market is a poem about “women testing the allurements of male sexuality and explaining the imaginative world that male eroticism has created” (Mermin…). She firmly believes that Lizzie and Laura are true feminist characters because “By rejecting the world they discover that a woman can be strong, bold, and clever, Christ-like in active service as well as in silent endurance, and that sisters and daughter can live happy lives together” (Mermin…). What’s more is that “Goblin Market” allows Christina Rossetti the advantage to redefine and represent gender because the poem represents a defiance against the patriarchal social constructs and presents opportunity for women that was taught as wicked to the female sex and
