Male Gaze and Feminine Insight: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Women's Predicaments in the Works of Zweig and Eileen Chang
This paper compares Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and Eileen Chang's Red Rose and White Rose to explore the construction of female images in cross-cultural contexts. Zweig adopts the male gaze to portray women as selfless emotional objects and romanticize their tragedies, while Chang employs unique feminine insi...