Exploring the woman's status through the dialogic relations in Rebecca West’s war fiction the return of the soldier

الملخص EN

This essay presents a critical reading of Rebecca west’s the return of the soldier, eliciting prime inquiries on the role of female characters in war fiction.

the novel depicts the story of a British soldier who returns home back from France, the place where he was fighting the Germans.

thus, this essay is interested in the types of dialogues presented within this story, I.E., how dialogism as an element of discourse is shaped through the lines of this story.

this study offers as well a literary feminist analysis of the status quo of female characters in the return of the soldier and compares it to that in male literature, as a woman wrote the studied work.

in this, our purpose is to delineate how men can be in need of help and how women can be a haven for them.