Othered Women in Women at Turning Point can be seen to move through variety of stages in their identity and emotional development as they transform themselves into self-identified beings. In the first stage, the female character faces various cultural restrictions that are represented as means of undoing her as a person. In the second stage, one effectively reaches a bottom to the pain and the female character begins to feel a burgeoning sense that the pain is lifting and a rise is possible. The third stage is characterized by a movement into death - as this stage comes to symbolize the death...