Jeanette Winterson

In the world Jeanette Winterson constructs in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, we see two sides to the world, history and fiction. We see textual examples of fiction through Jeanette’s hallucinations, through Jeanette’s encounters with others after significant conflicts between Jeanette and third parties, and through her questioning of authority or fact. On the other side of the binary we see Jeanette’s mother creating a controlling environment for her daughter, which cannot be questioned and is true no matter the situation Jeanette is in. In Oranges, Jeanette’s mother states “I’m your mother,” (Winterson 101) right after Jeanette listened to the conversation Jeanette’s mother had with Jeanette’s biological mother. This example supports the…

Jeanette Winterson is a British writer, she is also a lesbian. Being a lesbian writer has become a common identifier when she would rather be referred to as a writer who is a lesbian. In “The Semiotics of Sex,” Jeanette Winterson tackles the inherent relationship between the artist and their artwork by digging through the biased judgment that encases it. According to Winterson, using sexual preference “to judge the work of the writer” creates a distorted reality about their work of art (173).…

Struggles of Marxism in a cruel world In the passion by Jeanette Winterson we have two different character that are shown as the major character who happen to survive obstacles that were thrown in their live. As shown in the passion both character have to deal with their economic means, each of them have different ways of dealing with it such as using their emotions or using other people for their needs such as ones skills, This can be seen when Henri, Patrick and Villanelle desert the French…

Effrontery, by Jeanette Winterson, she stresses that art objects have another language of its own. Winterson since interested in Modernism, came to know about Roger Fry, after reading a biography on him by Virginia Woolf. Winterson’s initial experiences to the museum were unnerving, because of the crowd and, multiplicity of artworks, her failure to admiring art at first attempts, lack of exposure to contemporary arts, and, unfamiliarity towards some art objects. However, Winterson’s first…

the average life span of an American male or female is 78 years old. Therefore, there is so much more to living, then life and death it means that an individual should live life day by day and never take anything for granted but appreciate everything while it’s there. In Jeanette Winterson’s essay, “The World and Other Places” she introduces a narrator that explains his life story and his background of coming…

Love Demands Expression: Male versus Female “Written on the Body” by Jeanette Winterson, is a romantic novel about a suspicious narrator that does not give away the identity of their gender. The author uses different devices to keep from giving away this information. The narrator seeks out relationships with married women, yet in the past they have had relationships with men. The author also avoids giving the reader clues by not describing how the narrator is dressed. However, after having many…

Jeannette Walls wrote a book, The Glass Castle, about her own life. In her book, she talks about her “adventurous” life moving from place to place. Her father was a drunken man who could not hold a steady job; therefore, he could not pay the bills. That is where the “adventures” came in. They would run away from the authorities so they would not have to pay the bills. Many times, their family would secretly move in the middle of the night. Her family included her mother, Rose Mary, who was a…

their national pride and had difficulties for defining who they were. Jeanette Winterson and Hanif Kureishi both argue that in the post-imperial era, sexuality, race, and class are the most important components to define a British identity. In Oranges Are Not the only Fruit and My Beautiful Launderette, the protagonists had difficulties to identify themselves and were marginalized from the society because of their race, class, and sexuality. In Oranges Are Not the only Fruit and My Beautiful…

“Anne” who is a lesbian. She faces many difficulties in her life only because she has a different sexual identity. Comparing this book, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal,” to my friend Anne, who faced many problems, which includes: religious issues, and parent’s disappointment, but Anne doesn’t have to change gender role unlike Jeanette Winterson.…

important motif in Jeanette Winterson’s novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, frequently used as a physical manifestation of a character 's religious perspective or relationship with other characters. Sandwiches are a common symbol employed in the book to convey characters’ differing views about religion and its purpose in life. The sandwiches that Jeanette herself consumes are a reflection of her transition from relying on her mother’s interpretation of religion on her own to forming her own…