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"Three Girls," by Joyce Carol Oates, not only exemplifies the unconventional female of the 1950s, but also the difference between our expectations and reality. During this time, women were being told who they were supposed to be, and that was heterosexual, beautiful, and a perfect housewife to their kids and husband (which meant not going to ...
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In Strand Used Books on Broadway and Twelfth one snowy March early evening in 1956 when the streetlights on Broadway glimmered with a strange sepia glow, we were two NYU girl-poets drifting through the warehouse of treasures as through an enchanted forest. Just past 6:00 p.m. Above light-riddled Manhattan, opaque night.
Oates was born in Lockport, New York, the eldest of three children of Carolina (née Bush), a homemaker of Hungarian descent, and Frederic James Oates, a tool and die designer. She grew up on her parents' farm outside the town. Her brother, Fred Jr., and sister, Lynn Ann, were born in 1943 and 1956, respectively.
Oates’ “Three Girls” tells the story of two “girl-poets” in the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan on a snowy day in March of 1956. They wander through the aisles of poetry, with commentary about various poets and collections of poetries and how they reflected on the “girl-poets”.
842 books8,381 followers. Follow. Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Prix Femina for The Falls.
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Jun 19, 2020 · Included in The Best American Stories, 1996, “Ghost Girls” emerged from Oates’s childhood image of a small country airport isolated between cornfields. Ingrid Boone, the child narrator, is intrigued by the mysterious lives led by her parents.
Three Girls by Joyce Carol Oates is a story about a lesbian couple, and their observation of the behavior of a disguised Marilyn Monroe who, surprisingly to the narrator and her companion, wants to be seen as nothing more than a common person.
