Almost all women, she thought, when they are girls never believe that they will get married. The terror of spinsterhood hangs over them from adolescence on. Even if they are popular they think that no one really interesting will want them enough to marry them. Even if they get engaged they are afraid that somethingContinue reading “RKS American Literature: Spinsterhood, the Miracle of Marriage and the Contemplation of Divorce (Mary McCarthy)”
