Confusion in Landscape for a Good Woman Essay -- Landscape for a Good

Confusion in embellish for a Good WomanI found Landscape for a Good Woman to be a confusing landscape, one whose contours are gruelling to follow. I dont mean to imply that I did not materialize the book fascinating, but it was so rich and the stories and scholarly discussions were so intertwined that it was difficult to keep track of what Steedman was trying to convey. Why did she choose to write in this way? Instead of giving us a straight history about her childhood and allowing us to make our own inferences, I experience as if shes told a story and, at the same time, shes told us how to watch that story and has given us a critique of her own and others interpretations of her story. Steedman does convey the section titled Stories by saying that this book. . . is about interpretations. Of course, all stories, allegory or non-fiction, are interpretations of events and characters, told from the perspective of the author. I dont find the interpretations themselves to be inv olved maybe what I find confusing is that Steedman gives us interpretations from so many a(prenominal) different...