#imprisoned where else but the domestic space she defiled.
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i'm going to eventually write up something coherent about why i think liz makes sense as a post wwii queer woman / the reverberations in her own Myth. but in the meantime: excerpts from this article.
#➤ elizabeth collins stoddard. ┊ i belong to the house. the house belongs to me.#ive talked to people privately about this but i realized i never actually posted this and why i decided to rewrite everything lmao.#to me... it's about the sacrifice of Self and Pleasure in service of glorifying Nuclear Family and Dynasty and Domesticity and Property.#in contrast to her brother who is all but living in a public polycule at this point lmfao. defying every standard of behavior and law.#its on her shoulders not only to Behave as the american ideal mother figure as matriarch and civic figurehead.#but literally to produce the heir. she's really running two ideals of family at once: the Collinses and their larger impact#through history – law – influence – money – property – etc.#and also the Stoddards: her immediate nuclear family.#everything that happens with paul. i think can be read through the lens of compulsory marriage (beyond He Just Kinda Sucks.)#down to whacking him with a firepoker.#and she spends the next eighteen years Atoning for the sin of destroying the husband and the nuclear family – phallic weapon and all!#imprisoned where else but the domestic space she defiled.#and she doesn't learn. she Wants carolyn to be unlike her and to marry joe and find happiness but carolyn quite literally Freezes Up at the#idea of marrying joe. (at being with anyone who's not The Most Unobtainable Man. but thats another post)#anyway. like i said i'll be coherent sometime lmao.#but god. is it significant to ME that carolyn is born in 1946 lmaolkamdfsjf
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