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About the Author
Elizabeth Carraway
Elizabeth Carraway graduated from Virginia Tech in May 2008 with a major in
English and a minor in Women’s Studies. This paper began as a simple literary
analysis because she was perplexed by the female enigmas of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
Judy Jones and Sherwood Anderson’s Elizabeth Willard. When she expanded
and researched the topic, Elizabeth found a lot of disagreement among scholars
about these female characters and their depth or lack thereof. A former professor
of Elizabeth’s, Fritz Oehlschlaeger, encouraged her to take this idea further
and helped interpret these works in the context of their time. Elizabeth was
also selected to present this research at the ACC Meeting of the Minds in 2008.
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