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Essay Archive - A Critique of "Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy
A Critique of "Gone to Soldiers" by Marge Piercy
The novel Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy intricately weaves the lives
of many different people into a connected series of individual plots that give
the reader an exciting view of life during World War II. Piercy connects the
lives of women and men, Jews and gentiles by using family ties and steamy love
affairs. The people have dramatically different profiles, some are rich some
are poor, some are Americans, some are French, some are with power while others
are persecuted, but everyone is connected by the war. War freed women by
allowing them to wo....
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