The Sense of Feminism in Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending

الملخص

This paper aims at investigating Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending as a feminist novel by proving that Julian Barnes has surrounded his female characters with traits such as persistence, decisiveness, consultancy and intelligence. These traits help promote the female characters as more powerful and independent than the male figures, namely two characters of Veronica Ford and Margaret. In order to achieve the research objective. The theory of feminism is used as an analytical framework to demonstrate that the females in this novel are developed within these traits into different new constructions that represent the twentieth century women. On the other hand, the male characters are shown to be weak and hesitant lacking reasoning, judgments and power of the females who have the determination and ability to change and lead the males. The paper considers how a feminist novel constructs an alternative version of reality and what features a woman should have to be feminist.