Gabriel Paul Hernandez Washington State University

Washington State University

and folktale made his work attractive not only to contemporaries such as Chaucer but also to later poets such as Spenser

a drunken gardener

of a prominent Georgia family

After the United States entered World War I and the first Red Scare arose

Gabriel Paul Hernandez Washington State University"An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror of females, only to throw it in my face and say: but this is what you are." The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to follow a man's pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. Gabriel courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how