Ivy Rowes Ideas of the Past in Fair and Tender Ladies Essay -- Englis

Ivy Rowes Ideas of the former(prenominal) in Fair and testy LadiesIn leeward Smiths Fair and Tender Ladies, Ivy Rowe has a constantattachment to her past. This attachment is one of the primary(prenominal) themes inthe novel. It is one of her main reasons for garner writing and whyshe does most of the things that she does, because she does not wantto lose her grip on her past. Ivy Rowe, in Lee Smiths Fair and TenderLadies, uses letter writing to keep a hold of her grip on the past andwhere she came from.In Letters from loot Fork, Ivy writes for a number of reasons. Shewants to see how and what other people are doing, wanting to improveher writing skills, asking for help from her grandfather at one point,in addition to just having some way to resign all her thoughts andemotions. These letters, being a window into her mind, show us the betterment of her as she grows. There is one letter in particular,which shows how important this equilibrium is to her. I hate you,you do not wr ite back nor be my Pen recall dose I think you are the Ice poof instead. I do not oblige a Pen Friend or any friend in the world,I have only(prenominal) Silvaney who laghs and laghs and Beulah who is mad now allthe time and Ethel who calls a spade a spadeI will not send thisletter as I remain your hateful, Ivy Rowe.(Smith, 17) This lettershows just how important letter writing is to Ivy. As she is not equalto receive correspondence from Hanneke she cannot in full expressherself and has a hard time with her anger, as is evidence by theexcerpt from her letter.Ivy also writes to Mrs. Brown about her experiences in lettuce Fork. Shetalks about how she shot a gun and is able to rouge a vivid picture ofthe winter season. Ice just smart on each and e... ...her last letter defines her life when she says Slow carry outnow, slow down now Ivy. This is the taste of spring. I never haveslowed down. This shows her need to continue and persevere throughall she has been through. Ivy as a character goes through a lot in herlife and by writing these letters and expelling all her feelings andemotions onto the paper she was able to find a sort of peace with herexistence.BibliographyHenderson, Lara Beth A True fabricator Appalachias own Lee SmithOctober 1, 2000,http//www.etsu.edu/haleyd/engl3134/ejournal/henderson.htmlRobbins, Dorothy Dodge Personal and Cultural regeneration LetterWriting in Lee Smiths Fair and Tender Ladies Critique Studies inContemporary Fiction (Winter 1997, Volume 38 n.2) p. 135Hill, Dorothy Combs An Interview with Lee Smith The SouthernQuarterly 28.2(1990)5-19