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Mary Ann Lopes Dr. David Blake LIT 102 - 2:00 pm 6 March 2023 Jealousy of Gender in The Member of the Wedding The reinvention of Creation scene in Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding examines the discordant mind of a twelve-year-old girl as she begins to enter adulthood. Using images conjured by Frankie in this scene, McCullers effectively explores the relationships between Frankie’s id, ego, and superego, which demonstrate the intricacy of her unconscious mind and the source of her insecurities in her sense of self. She also discusses Freudian ideas, such as penis envy, in order to introduce deep psychological neuroses caused by conflict in Frankie’s unconscious mind that further Frankie’s instability. In The Member of the Wedding, …show more content…

John Henry, who demonstrates his immaturity through his visions of candy fields and lemonade rain, symbolizes Frankie’s desire for pleasure in life, or id (McCullers 337). He does not address anything serious with his version of a new Creation due to his age, which symbolizes how Frankie’s own adolescence influences her mind’s ambitions and desires. In addition, Berenice is Frankie’s superego, which is the “power of restraint taught by society that says one cannot get everything they want” (Blake). As a result of Berenice’s adult status, she continuously acts as a guide for Frankie’s behaviors, and attempts to suppress her wilder ambitions. After Frankie expresses her desire for people to have the ability to change their sex at will, Berenice hastily responds that “the law of human sex was exactly right as it was” (McCullers 338). In response, John Henry continues to demonstrate his role as Frankie’s id, taking the image further by suggesting that all people be both male and female. The conflict between each of these characters’ versions of Creation portrays Frankie’s disconnected mind. Frankie, the ego in this scenario, is having trouble negotiating between her superego and her id while attempting to navigate her adolescence, ultimately showing the weakness of her resolve toward outside influences on her

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