Father-daughter relationship in Alice Walker's novel the third life of Grange Copeland (1970)‎

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The present paper investigates the relationship that gathers fathers with their daughters in Alice Walker's novel the Third Life of Grange Copeland.

The objective of the study is to demonstrate that fathers are rather violent and uninvolved in their daughters' lives.

Questions like in what sense daughters are fatherless and what causes fathers' uninvolvement in the Third Life of Grange Copeland are raised to investigate the aforementioned issue.

To approach these problematic concerns, we hypothesise that father-daughter relationship is negatively represented in Walker's novel; and that fathers' uninvolvement is an outcome of their attempts to identify with their male gender roles.

Applying a gender-based analysis, we arrived at confirming fathers' violence and enteeism in their daughters' lives as resulting from masculine gender stereotypes to avoid nurturance in male dispositions.