Women at Turning Point

Othered Women in Women at Turning Point can be seen to move through variety of stages in their identity and emotional development as they transform themselves into self-identified beings. In the first stage, the female character faces various cultural restrictions that are represented as means of undoing her as a person. In the second stage, one effectively reaches a bottom to the pain and the female character begins to feel a burgeoning sense that the pain is lifting and a rise is possible. The third stage is characterized by a movement into death - as this stage comes to symbolize the death of her social roles and also the death of her literal physical body. In order to achieve the freedom of the third stage there is no other possibility of realizing self but through the death of those cultural icons that keep her invisible in a state dominated by the Other. Moreover, the death of her cultural roles must be accompanied by her death as a physical body in order for her to reach a state in which she comes to identify herself for herself.