This paper has been a bit frustrating for me. I initially began my search looking for articles, except the only place they were located was on microfilm. I spent 3 hours in the library copying them. Microfilm is a pain! And as it turns out, most of the "critical opinions" that I found were just brief blurbs in praise of the books. No offense to the literary critics, but I was at least hoping for some criticism. In just our class alone we had a tremendous variety of opinion. But whatever. Now I'm just looking for things about the role of women in the 50s, which has been more difficult than I thought it would be. I'll be glad when this is all over.