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terms of the criticism.
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And, if you've ever seen the film "Thelma and Louise," you can sort of
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see the way it chimes with a lot of what was being thought in popular
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culture on these questions.
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You can think of Helen sailing off the cliff into the lake,
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which was seen as empowering, in her car.
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It did not take long for readers of this novel to abandon that,
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because of the predominance of the themes that I'm going
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to talk about next, and that's the question of: how can
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you be a coherent person in this world?
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What does that look like?
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Ruth is very troubled by this quality.