{"title":"On Mrs. Sommers’ Self-construction from the Perspective of Theory of Mirror Stages","authors":"Yong Jiang","doi":"10.5296/jsel.v11i1.21511","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The short story A Pair of Silk Stockings depicted the protagonist Mrs. Somers’ process of finding her ideal self through a fifteen dollar consumption, reflecting the difficult situation of American women wandering between housewives and their ideal self in the 19th century. Mrs. Sommers’ self-exploration and alienation in the process of consumption, and her identity construction is quite in accordance with the three stages of one’s establishment in Jacques Lacan’s Theory of Mirror Stages.","PeriodicalId":496373,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the study of English linguistics","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal for the study of English linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"0","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5296/jsel.v11i1.21511","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The short story A Pair of Silk Stockings depicted the protagonist Mrs. Somers’ process of finding her ideal self through a fifteen dollar consumption, reflecting the difficult situation of American women wandering between housewives and their ideal self in the 19th century. Mrs. Sommers’ self-exploration and alienation in the process of consumption, and her identity construction is quite in accordance with the three stages of one’s establishment in Jacques Lacan’s Theory of Mirror Stages.