Women
The naif represents 'a common intellectual type among women...Rosamond Lehmann, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys all wrote naïvely'. Alongside the literary 'survival of a tender, untried female naif from modern Gothic tradition', the role remains a perennial possibility in everyday life. Often in a family 'the youngest sister, the most undeveloped one, plays out the very human story of the naive woman. The naive woman tacitly agrees to remain "not knowing"'.
Yet any woman may adopt the position in a relationship, so that 'from the moment she uses the word love, there is the birth of naivety': she 'put her intelligence to sleep...the knowing, doubting, sophisticated ', exchanging it for ' the power to create through naivety '
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