Verbalized motherhood experience in the short story "Trespass" by S. Scofield

Abstract

With the development of the feminist thought, modern literature strongly influenced by its contributions, a female's peculiar biological experience is being made more and more explicit. In American literature of the end of the XIX century — the beginning of the XX century the role of a mother was predominantly based on the existing pattern of gender stereotype, when woman was evaluated through her influence on her child and her attitude to it. The undisguised description of maternal practice was considered to be tabooed, thus was not present in the literary works.