In Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding, there are two very similar characters that are a reflection of each other. In this novel, part two chapter 2, Berenice and F. Jasmine have a different conversation than usual. The conversation is about love and Berenice brings up the topic about “queer” love, in other words, homophobic affection. F. Jasmine doesn’t avoid the conversation, instead, she is intrigued by it. Berenice introduces a person named, “Lily Mae Jenkins” to F. Jasmine. Lily Mae Jenkins is a man that fell in love with another man named, “Juney Jones”, but not only that Jenkins also conducted a sex change making him the female in the relationship. Lily Mae Jenkins made the whole sex change as how Berenice describes, “To all
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In part 1 chapter 1, there is a scene when Frankie goes back to her house and it was 4 in the afternoon. She looks at herself in a mirror hanging above the kitchen sink, and the author provides the reader a short description of her saying, “This Summer she was grown so tall that she was almost a big freak, and her shoulders were narrow, her legs too long. She wore a pair of blue track shorts, a B.V.D. undervest, and she was barefooted. Her hair had been cut like a boy’s…” (McCullers 2). In the first part she even goes by, “Frankie”, and she does not mind going by that name at all. That is not a name for a female especially not for a little girl. The author describes her as if she was a man trapped inside a woman’s body sharing both feminine and male characteristics. These characteristics are finely developed throughout the events that happen in the novel. Frankie, who is twelve at the time dresses up like a male, and demonstrates male behavior as well. It is obvious that something about the military interests her because she wore a military vest and for a twelve-year-old girl it seems a bit odd for her to wear that. Frankie is a character who is conflicted with figuring out her gender preference. This is shown
In part 1 chapter 1, there is a scene when Frankie goes back to her house and it was 4 in the afternoon. She looks at herself in a mirror hanging above the kitchen sink, and the author provides the reader a short description of her saying, “This Summer she was grown so tall that she was almost a big freak, and her shoulders were narrow, her legs too long. She wore a pair of blue track shorts, a B.V.D. undervest, and she was barefooted. Her hair had been cut like a boy’s…” (McCullers 2). In the first part she even goes by, “Frankie”, and she does not mind going by that name at all. That is not a name for a female especially not for a little girl. The author describes her as if she was a man trapped inside a woman’s body sharing both feminine and male characteristics. These characteristics are finely developed throughout the events that happen in the novel. Frankie, who is twelve at the time dresses up like a male, and demonstrates male behavior as well. It is obvious that something about the military interests her because she wore a military vest and for a twelve-year-old girl it seems a bit odd for her to wear that. Frankie is a character who is conflicted with figuring out her gender preference. This is shown