I Just Don’t Understand It: Teaching Margaret Atwood’s "Rape Fantasies"

Lisa Tyler

doi:10.58680/tetyc19983850

ISSN: 0098-6291
E-ISSN: 1943-2356

I Just Don’t Understand It: Teaching Margaret Atwood’s "Rape Fantasies"
Author(s): Lisa Tyler
Source: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Volume 25, Issue 1, Feb 1998, p. 51 - 57
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc19983850
- Published online: 01 Feb 1998

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Discusses Margaret Atwood’s "provocative and funny" short story "Rape Fantasies," and describes how, when teaching this story the author encourages students to sympathize with Estelle (the narrator) before they judge her (instead of rushing to achieve closure and begin interpretation).

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