![]() Jeanette’s adoptive mother is the most important figure in her life for the entirety of the novel, and she is Jeanette’s initial model for what it means to be a woman: polite, demure, godly, and self-denying. In this way, Winterson investigates the many stages of womanhood and argues for a more complicated understanding of what it means to be a woman in the world. She shows women at all stages of their lives grappling with emotional and intellectual quandaries, and struggling to live in a way that they feel is righteous, godly, or simply most convenient. In populating the story of her childhood primarily with women, Jeanette Winterson argues that womanhood is an endless becoming. In addition, the fantastical stories that occupy Jeanette’s dream life depict men as being somewhat flat: evil sorcerers, weary knights, or judgmental princes. ![]() ![]() With the exception of Jeanette’s pastor and her father (who is only mentioned in passing), the characters in the “real” story of the novel are overwhelmingly women. ![]() ![]() The world of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is ruled by-and mostly populated by-women. ![]()
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