In the short story “The Shunamite”, the character Luisa was forced to marry her uncle in order to receive his inheritance. In the beginning of the story Luisa described how happy of a person she was. She felt totally free and liberated to do whatever she wanted to. She was young and beautiful with the whole world in front of her, as she continues to describe herself, “I stood in the very midst of the light, dressed in the morning, proud, feeding the flames with my blonde hair, alone.” In this passage the protagonist (Luisa) in my opinion felt proud to be a woman, but we learn in the next passage that she also uses the attributes of her looks to draw attention from men. This is an example of Amazon Feminism. “Amazon feminism focuses on physical
