Well_Of_Loneliness

Well Of Loneliness Leslie Feinberg once said, “More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I’m hit with everyday of my life: ‘are you a man or a woman'’” Our society has yet to develop a term for a gender that is neither male nor female, a person whose characteristics are neither masculine nor feminine. Often times it is the case that if a woman does not appear feminine she is perceived as masculine. In The Well of Loneliness, by Radclyffe Hall a story of character unravels in which one female sexed person lives in a society where she feels that she is not accepted for who she is. Hall develops this sensitive lesbian and as the story unravels the reader is invited to look closer into the soul of this character and what being a lesbian entails to her. From the beginning of Stephen’s life there was something different about her. She resembled her father Sir Phillip almost uncannily, which made her mother uneasy. She played rough with her father, riding on his back as if he were a bucking bronco. In Hall’s description of Stephen’s early adolescence, she is supporting a view point that a lesbian loneliness, well, stephen, mary, lesbian, father, stephen’s, age, love, life, hair, feminine, being, very, protect, first, because, angela, time, one, man, made, desire, strong, physical, novel, mother, inverts, important, hall, young, yet, woman, understood, society, riding, off