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The Unknown Woman’s Sense of Inferiority in Letter From an Unknown Woman
FAN Mengwei
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2021.04.004
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
The unknown woman in Letter From an Unknown Woman written by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig is a silent female image. Personally it is the inferiority feeling that stops her to confess her love towards the writer R. and leads to her tragic life. This paper aims to analyze the unknown’s woman from three aspects including signs, causes, and effects of her inferiority feeling. Readers can learn more about the silent woman and have a better understanding of the novel through her inferiority feelings.
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