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Birth
BIRTH. By Zona Gale.
There is a profound significance in Zona Gale's story of small town life, "Birth," in the light of her assertion that neighborliness is a role requiring pains, that, to take ones place as a member of a town is delicate business.
In this story of two generations you perceive how Barbara's son pays the penalty of her casual marriage, and of her ignorance and abhorrence of motherhood. It will always be so as long as motherhood, which, by being voluntary might be fine and beautiful, belongs "to the limbo of things whispered about, commiserated upon, avoided, and associated with the risque."
-- The Birth Control Review, Vol. 1
There is a profound significance in Zona Gale's story of small town life, "Birth," in the light of her assertion that neighborliness is a role requiring pains, that, to take ones place as a member of a town is delicate business.
In this story of two generations you perceive how Barbara's son pays the penalty of her casual marriage, and of her ignorance and abhorrence of motherhood. It will always be so as long as motherhood, which, by being voluntary might be fine and beautiful, belongs "to the limbo of things whispered about, commiserated upon, avoided, and associated with the risque."
-- The Birth Control Review, Vol. 1
412 pages, Paperback
First published February 11, 2010
About the author
Zona Gale
217 books28 followersAmerican author, playwright, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, in 1921 for
Miss Lulu Bett
, her dramatic adaptation of her novel of the same name.
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