Confusion in Landscape for a Good Woman Essay -- Landscape for a Good

Confusion in Landscape for a Good womanhoodI found Landscape for a Good Woman to be a confusing landscape, one whose contours are difficult to follow. I dont suppose to imply that I did not harness the book fascinating, but it was so rich and the stories and scholarly discussions were so intertwined that it was difficult to keep track of what Steedman was stressful to convey. Why did she choose to write in this way? Instead of expectant us a straight narrative about her childhood and allowing us to make our own inferences, I feel as if shes told a fabrication and, at the same time, shes told us how to interpret that story and has given us a critique of her own and others interpretations of her story. Steedman does begin the section titled Stories by saying that this book. . . is about interpretations. Of course, all stories, fiction or non-fiction, are interpretations of events and characters, told from the side of the author. I dont find the interpretations themselves to be p roblematic maybe what I find confusing is that Steedman gives us interpretations from so many different...