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Journal Article
Implicit Protest in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man
2007
Overview
Roberts scholars agree that the novel focuses on the inner life of its protagonist, Ellen Chesser, and that external environmental and social factors serve as backdrop for illuminating her spiritual growth as she matures into womanhood.2 Clearly, The Time of Man (1926) is neither political propaganda nor an overt piece of protest fiction. In a book-length study of Roberts, Rovit raises a valid question concerning Ellen Chesser's ability to function as an everyman figure, since her poor-white experiences were distinctly unlike those of Roberts' contemporary readers.4 In From Tobacco Road to Route 66, Cook even goes a step farther, stating: it is apparent that she [Ellen] will be an unlikely tool for propagandists out to reform the poor white's lot.. ..The reader is bound to respond with revulsion to the filth, vermin, pain, and hunger that Ellen accepts as the normal circumstances of her life and to be aware how much of her superb energy is being sapped battling needless obstacles.5 Ellen and the other characters in The Time of Man are necessarily concerned with meeting basic human needs that Roberts' audience would have taken (and probably still take) for granted, but the novel's readers also witness poor-white characters experiencing a variety of universal human emotions here, including vanity, jealousy, sadness, loneliness, and fear.
