Alice B. Toklas

Their agency was given to them based on their social economic status and their adoption of American values. Gertrude Stein was a white American woman, and an American value is an education which often it is synonymous with success and associated with masculinity. Referring to Gertrude Stein’s stance on wives, “Wives are not geniuses” (Truong 148). While The Book of Salt takes place in the early 1900s, when not many women were going to college, education has always been a foundation of success. Additionally, Stein is an extremely progressive woman who considers herself to be modern and of modern ideals. “The modern world is without limits, she (Gertrude Stein) tells Miss Toklas, so the modern story must accommodate the possibilities…” (28). Ifemelu on the other hand was born into a middle-class family where she was allotted an education and the opportunity to go to America to further her education and therefore her success. Her time spent in America instilled her with western values such as independence and the important of an education. Ifemelu acknowledges the differences that her social economic status took part in her success and ability to go to America. Ifemelu recounts a time with a potential employer where “Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their…

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Scott Fitzgerald who she greatly influenced. Gertrude Stein was also able to publish The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1933 which was Gertrude Stein’s only commercial success and written in the perspective of her partner Alice B. Toklas. Stein did a lecture tour of the United States in 1934 which was very successful, but she later went back to France, where she stayed until the end of World War II. Many Americans visited Gertrude Stein after the liberation of Paris in 1944 and she later…

Stein moved to Paris, France, to be with her brother, Leo, where they began collecting Post-Impressionist paintings. Gertrude Stien and Leo established a famous literary and artistic salon at 27 rue de Fleurus. However Leo moved to Florence, Italy, in 1912, taking many of the paintings with him. Gertrude Stein remained in Paris with her assistant Alice B. Toklas and would eventually become lifelong companions. During World War One Stein bought her own Ford van, and she and Alice B. Toklas…

writings of Gertrude Stein, universities consider them as relevant literature still today. While some students try to appear knowledgeable and adsorbed in the seminars, when Stein’s texts are being analyzed, one can see by the look on their faces that they are either not interested in the topic, or the texts are so complex that they cannot wrap their minds around them. For years, students have asked themselves what the reason might be for such an interest in Gertrude Stein. There are two main…

their relationship. Though they were good friends, they had contrasting opinions on several subjects, which led to arguments, a strained friendship, and eventually a complete falling-out. During the era of the lost generation, Hemingway and Stein had their first estrangement in 1926. (Stendhal, 86) This was also directly after Hemingway’s overhearing of Stein’s intimate conversation with her ‘friend,’ as well as the publication of The Sun Also Rises. Although they did communicate following this…

Toklas by Gertrude Stein there is a remembrance of the traveler within their story, because they are Americans who have found themselves part of the Paris scene. Compared to most of those that are mentioned earlier in this paper, both Stein and Toklas have found a place where the traveler has a more permanent place. Compared to where they originally come from. Both Stein and Toklas are travelers who are certainly not tourist because they have found a permanent place in society. They instead…

structures. Whereas Gertrude Stein in “Objects,” she uses difficult and unfamiliar structures and formatting. Stein’s writing is more of a generalization (abstraction) which, I think, has originated through her reading of literature. In fact, in her book “How To Write,” she doesn’t teach her readers how to write, but rather gives them an experience in language that will inspire them to write. Stein expresses her voice through fragmented language using abstract ways and forms. She manipulates…

Another category that allows groups in power to determine who is classified as the other is language. Language serves as a central conflict in both Bihn and Man Ya’s narratives, because their native tongue doesn’t match the official spoken narrative of the French ruling class. The first example of this we’re introduced to in The Book of Salt manifests itself in the refusal for Bihn’s employers to learn to properly pronounce his name. Even after he’s repeated it for them multiple times, Gertrude…