Hi, I need help with essay on Main Female Characters in Alice Munros Wild Swans and Charles Bukowskis Fooling Marie. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!Both are greatly inf

Hi, I need help with essay on Main Female Characters in Alice Munros Wild Swans and Charles Bukowskis Fooling Marie. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

Both are greatly influenced by the kind of lives the writers lived. For instance, the setting of Wild Swan is in a regional, small town of Canada. According to reviews "Munro's fiction is nearer to autobiography than fiction." Munro, however, said it is "autobiographical in form but not in fact."Moreover, "she has explained in various interviews that her stories are not autobiographical, but she does claim an "emotional reality" for her characters that is drawn from her own life".Charles Bukowski's Fooling Marie is also a reflection of his lifestyle and experience. As a child, he was often beaten by his father who vents his frustrations on his son. When he was older, he was introduced to race track and it became a vital part of his life. He was also involved with several women of different kinds. Finally, "with a stable relationship and steady royalties in the low six-figure range, Bukowski became a home owner, albeit in a middle class neighbourhood in San Pedro. He now had a swimming pool, a hot tub, and drove a black BMW he paid cash for to the track" .Munro is an educated writer and widely accepted while Bukowski is named 'psychologically unfit' and not recognized in the United States.

The former has a more complicated style but the latter is indeed "a man that could be read by anyone of any class or educational background" ().

In this paper, I would like to show the similarities between the female characters of the stories Wild Swans and Fooling Marie. Despite their being written by two different authors of two different backgrounds and experiences, the female characters are similar in many ways. The following are the points of comparison: they are both adventurous and confident. both are feminine and self-satisfied. and they are victims and victors at the same time.

They are adventurous and confident

Rose can be considered adventurous and confident because she dares to travel alone. Despite the many warnings Flo gave to her, she is not afraid. "Well, I'm not scared," said Rose provokingly. "There's the police, anyway"(2). She is just too glad be away and on her own. "She had a window seat, and was soon extraordinarily happy. She felt Flo receding, West Hanratty flying away from her, her own wearying self discarded as easily as everything else" (5).

When the passenger beside her begins to make pass on her, she did not stop him. It appears that she is still sexually inexperienced but she allows him to explore her private parts because she wants to venture beyond what could happen. "But there was more to it than that. Curiosity. More constant, more imperious, than any lust. A lust in itself, that will make you draw back and wait, wait too long, risk almost anything, just to see what will happen. To see what will happen" (12).

After the incident and when she is by herself in Toronto, she remembers what Flo said about Mavis. "She thought it would be an especially fine thing to manage a transformation like that. To dare it. to get away with it, to enter on preposterous adventures in your own, but newly named, skin" (17). Here, her adventurous nature is more heightened.

Victoria, on the other hand, has a definite objective in her mind when she approached the man at the race track. She knows how to pick her prey. 'Tardon me, sir, but I've lost the first two races. I saw you cashing in your