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emerglng feminlst in her. The ability to take an
independent decision is no doubt prompted by the mellowness
she ach~eves through her writing, her fictlon being not lust
an exercrse in Creatlvlty, but also an exercise in self-
~ntrospectlon, a delving deep into the innermost layers of
her consciousness.
3.5.3. Unimpeded by male interference, Rosamund Stacey of
The Millstone is able to successfully combine motherhood and
career, unlike her slster Beatrice who 1s unable to
reconcile the two Because of the rigour of rearlng three
children, Beatrlce 1s not able to use her degree to the best
advantage as motherhood ltself becomes a full tlme
responsiblllty, leaving her wlth no tlme or energy to pursue
a career In contrast to Cora Sandel's Alberta and Freedom
where Alberta, an lmpoverlshed young woman wrlter 1s not
able to wrlte when she discovers her pregnancy, Rosamund 1s
able to work consistently on her thes~s In the pre- and
post- natal phases, successfully completing lt desplte
varlous trlbulatlons she faces as a slngle parent
3.5.4. Whlle Rosamund is able to strlke a balance between
motherhood and career in the face of various odds, Kate
Brown does not have the optlon to do so It is only after
her talent as translator is tapped at Global Foods, does the
thought cross her mlnd that if she had not marrled, she