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Feminism plays a large part in Waters' Egg-Face. This story shows that even in modern times where women emancipation is in full-swing, a woman still have an obligation to fulfill certain roles that are set up by the society. The story seems to challenge the assumption that the feminist movement to free women from their socially constructed boundary is a good thing for women. To make this point, certain literary devices are used, such as the use of vivid imagery and subtle symbolisms, and especially the subtle development of the plot. These devices show the reader just what kind of roles the society expects a woman to fulfill and the consequence that comes when the roles are failed to be fulfilled, which is a clever way to address the issue of the socially constructed role for women that women today must face everywhere. To make the point even more prominent, the reader is also showed the difference in the value of the beauty of a woman in modern and pre-modern times, and what it means to be a woman in a modern time.
