This research paper is focused on how Willa Cather portrays the inner rebellion and the passion of a female character, Marian Forrester in her novel A Lost Lady. This research concludes that Cather’s Marian has dismantled the social hierarchy created by the male superiority or patriarchy in the novel. As a qualitative research, by using radical feminism as a tool of interpretation, the researcher collected textual evidenced from Cather’s novel and interpreted them to fulfill the objective of this research. Marian goes against male hegemony and to create her separate identity. At that time female were not allowed to enjoy their freedom like the males. Marian seems to transcend her husband’s order. down in her heart she is not happy with her husband. Though she is married and living happily with her husband, somewhere deep. She walks against the social norms and she is presented as a rigid character who dismantles the male created hierarchy woman as a subordinate being in the society.
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