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Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop.(Willa Cather's Novel)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050101
Author:Smith, Jennifer A.

In her November 27, 1908, letter responding to Willa Cather's use of a male narrator in her short story "On Gull's Road," Sarah Orne Jewett writes, "The lover is as well done as he could be when a woman writes in the man's character,--it must always, I believe, be something of a masquerade." Jewett goes on to suggest that Cather write the story from a third-person perspective rather than "try to be he!" or from a woman's point of view, as "a woman could love her in the same protecting way" (246-47). Jewett's comments reveal an essentialized conception of gender that adheres ...

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