The Fat Woman Next Door By Michel Tremblay

Now that a semester has passed, we should return to one of the very first questions of the course: is Québec a distinct society, and if so, how and why did it develop this difference? Several themes persisted throughout our studies that sought to answer these questions, including that of la survivance. This ideologically loaded phrase describing survival by means of French, Catholicism, and a farming vocation related back multiple times to other concepts. With regards to language, the long-standing linguistic tensions between Francophones and the English majority in North American as well as the social crisis surrounding the French spoken in Québec led no only to controversial legislature such as Bill 101, but also tied into how local French-speaking television and film grew to prominence and helped the province to achieve social collectivism. …show more content…
These changing ideas about the role of the church in daily life and new roles for women were visible among the open-minded women in Michel Tremblay’s novel The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant. Also address in this novel was urbanization and a movement away from a traditional rural farming lifestyle. The idyllic image of winter as a community centered season evaporated when many Québécois moved to cities, taking away the warm nostalgic feeling and leaving only bitter cold. Many Québécois have decided to relocate to the southern USA permanently, but this has led to another dilemma of