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Black Water: Voiceless Victims

Black Water: Voiceless Victims

Voiceless Victims: A Woman in a Man's World
Carol Oates invites readers to consider an issue many would rather avoid, because Kelly is someone easy to identify with; she could be our daughter, sister, or even ourselves.   Kelly, a young, intelligent, woman, in Oates' novella, Black Water, explores the affect a male dominated society has on the upbringing, life, and eventually, the death of the woman.  She is not only the physical victim, but also a victim of social attitudes and perpetuated gender scripts.  Kelly is the product of a misogynistic world that not only leads to her death, but, also, to her ambiguity as a person.  Kelly represents all the women who are overshadowed and led by the men they admire down paths that result to their demise.
 Based on a true story of Mary Jo Kopechne, Kelly represents a woman of obscurity.  By this I mean her name and life are never brought out accurately or long enough for the public to have a collective sense of who she was; her name was never a household word.  Her name is eventually forgotten, and her life was never known.  Newspapers mentioned her

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