After being exposed , Fern was criticized for expressing un-femininely bitter wrath and spite against the male members of her family . She was then accused of demeaning herself as no right minded woman should have done , her most heinous crime was engaging in un-filial behavior . The fact that so many people seized the opportunity to pronounce whether Fern 's bitter depiction of undemocratic men was a criminal breach of moral ethics indicates just how contested the ideal of womanly behavior had...











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