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Annotated by:
- Squier, Harriet
- Date of entry: Nov-24-1998
Summary
Sunday Morning is a short story about childbirth. In this story the mother is assaulted by the lights, sounds, and ritual of the delivery room. She is strapped to a table and forced to endure indignity, labor pains, and muscle cramps only to have her newborn child taken away from her. At the end of the story the narrator claims possession of her newborn son, excluding her husband from ownership, despite her sense that this child is a stranger to her.
Primary Source
The Women in the Mirror
Publisher
Univ. of Iowa Press
Place Published
Iowa City, Iowa
Edition
1977
Page Count
3
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