Word: honeymooon
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...feminism. While she gains her liberty from the conservative domesticity typified by her husband's annoying habits--his cautious driving, his nightly flossing routine before bed, his compulsion for organizing--she discovers she has become too tamed to overcome her dependency on familiar routines. Similarly, Rose returns from her honeymooon and comes straight back home, abandoning Julian, to her kin and the estabslihed shrine of domestic order to which she has long sacrificed any personal desires. While critical of women's traditional roles, Tyler attributes their pathos less to the forces of social oppression than to self-resigned defeat...
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