Women in Rabbit Run

Ophelia Fights Back: Women and Their Role In Updike’s Rabbit, Run Several common stereotypes of women are put forth in Updike’s Rabbit, Run. Utilizing the characters of Ruth Leonard, Janice, Lucy Eccles, Mrs. Springer, and Mrs. Angstrom, Updike illustrates many different, classic, stereotypical views of women. Through these women, examples of the whore, the wife, the (unknowing) temptress, and the mother are presented. By examining each of these women, we learn about women …

…domination.  Ophelia Fights Back: Women And Their Role In Updike’s Rabbit, Run  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Hunt, George. John Updike And The Three Great Secret Things: Sex, Religion, And Art . Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998 Thornburn, David, ed. John Updike: A Collection Of Critical Essays . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1979 Trachtenberg, Stanley, ed. New Essays On Rabbit Run . Cambridge [England] New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993 Updike, John. Rabbit, Run . New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1996.