Recently, I saw a movie about female tennis champion – Billie Jean King, and although I have never been into the feminism (neither can I say that I quite understand it), her character woke up some other kind of sensitivity in me. After this – to me significant change – I could not help myself not to notice different approaches of John Steinbeck and Kay Boyle to the similar thematic. They both deal with marital relationships and it …showed first 75 words of 878 total…

…showed last 75 words of 878 total…such a long time. The astronomer’s wife finally touched the ground even she knew that it is not going to last – but she finally felt it. She had a proof that she was still alive. Elisa became a woman – at least for that day. She knew that she will return to her “children” there in the sand, the first thing in the morning, but that evening there she was: beautiful and happy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**