—Stein set herself one consistent task. This task was not, I believe, as perhaps it was for other modernist writers, to express herself through the figural masks of a difficult plot and character, but rather to explore how unsettling, yet creatively engaging, it can be to illustrate the myriad ways a text, a character name, an author, and an ensemble of nar-rated events might be compositionally analyzed and reconstructed
this is a statment that is all too important to my essay. I think that this captures exactly what i want to express in why gertrude did as she did do.