Gentle Creature
On one level, “A Gentle Creature” is a love story. However, instead of fulfilling romantic ideals, “A Gentle Creature” portrays a battleground. ... Because the husband possesses all of the narrative force within the text, his refusal to provide a name is irrelevant to the power struggle inherent in “A Gentle Creature. ... It is this action that leads the narrator to tell the story of “A Gentle Creature. ... Upon a cursory reading, the plot of “A Gentle Creature” seems quite obvious. ... However, it is the finer details of the text’s power struggle that lead one to the conclusion that the narrator’s “gentle creature” is, in fact, forceful enough to triumph.