{"id":1087,"date":"2016-10-02T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2016-10-03T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T03:45:00","slug":"voices-franklins-piece-on-shirley-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/voices-franklins-piece-on-shirley-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices &#8211; Franklin&#8217;s piece on Shirley Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this analysis, I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2016\/09\/shirley-jackson-rather-haunted-life-c-v-r.html\">\u201cThe Novelist Disguised as a Housewife,\u201d<\/a> excerpt from Ruth Franklin\u2019s biography of Shirley Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Voices, in order of their inclusion in the article, are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shirley Jackson herself (subject),<\/strong> in reply to the question of her occupation, which she stated as \u201cwriter,\u201d and at other points in the piece such as in a letter to her parents, letter to a friend, and her thoughts in general about squeezing in writing time while presenting herself as just a mother and housewife with a penchant for writing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The hospital clerk (local community)<\/strong> who determined that a more acceptable response than \u201cwriter\u201d would be housewife.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The characters she created in cartoons (fictitious extension of subject\u2019s imagination),<\/strong> such as an onlooker to a woman dragging her husband by the hair. \u201cI understand she\u2019s trying to have both a marriage and career,\u201d the cartoon character says.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The wife of a writer (closely involved with subject)<\/strong> who was said to have been incredulous that a writer would \u201callow\u201d his wife to have a child.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Midge Decter, friend<\/strong> <strong>(closely involved) <\/strong>and later editor, who commented that \u201cit was the men who needed looking after \u2026 They had many demands.\u201d She also noted that having kids was \u201cnot part of the bohemian life.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jackson\u2019s husband (Hyman) as depicted in her cartoons<\/strong>, being detached from demands and needs of family and instead expecting to be served.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hyman in his own words<\/strong> <strong>(closely involved with subject) <\/strong>about having kids, \u201cBring \u2018em to me when they can read and write,\u201d and with regard to his own needs, \u201cI did three paragraphs at once and it tired me out.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two year old son<\/strong> describing Daddy as \u201cman who sits in chair reading.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong> Spock (national figure),<\/strong> words taken from his child-care manual<\/li>\n<li><strong>Her children<\/strong> who described aspects of their upbringing; <strong>their third child, Sarah<\/strong>, who said, \u201cShe was afraid she would lose us,\u201d as explanation for Jackson keeping them in her watchful eye; <strong>her son, Laurence<\/strong>, who recalled her quirky, playful ways.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Friend of daughter, Sarah<\/strong>, who recalled that Jackson could be a tough disciplinarian<\/li>\n<li><strong>Another writer, Alice Munro<\/strong> (likely a friend of Jackson\u2019s) who spoke of having the same constraints on writing time that Jackson experienced.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kit Foster, a friend (closely involved)<\/strong> who recalled Jackson leaving a game of Monopoly to write a short story.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Betty Friedan, feminist writer (national figure),<\/strong> who saw Jackson as selling herself (and by extension, other women) short, by making it seem as though she was dashing off her literary pieces between her household chores.<\/li>\n<li><strong>General admiring tone of fan mail received (generalized others as fans).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many voices present in this short piece, giving us a rich picture of the life and persona of Shirley Jackson as well as the context of the times.\u00a0 Interesting reading \u2026 and eye-opening to see the number of voices that are included and how they are all woven together!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this analysis, I chose \u201cThe Novelist Disguised as a Housewife,\u201d excerpt from Ruth Franklin\u2019s biography of Shirley Jackson. Voices, in order of their inclusion in the article, are as follows: Shirley Jackson herself (subject), in reply to the question of her occupation, which she stated as \u201cwriter,\u201d and at other points in the piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/voices-franklins-piece-on-shirley-jackson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voices &#8211; Franklin&#8217;s piece on Shirley Jackson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1997,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-6","tag-voices"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Ndkv-hx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1997"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}