CONFLICTING ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE PORTRAYAL OF WOMAN IN ON THE ROAD AND TROIA: MEXICAN MEMOIRS

Jack kerouac and brenda frazer are two beat generation writers longing for the lives far away from suppressed thoughts of society. they both seek freedom, experience by being on the road and choosing different lives. however, while looking for experience, these two writers own disparate points of view and contradictory attitudes towards women. throughout jack kerouac’s on the road and brenda frazer’s troia, it can be grasped that depiction of women undergoes a change according to the view of man and woman. the ideas comprising women’s passivity and their being perceived as a sex object in on the road clash with the notion of women’s activity and sexuality in troia. this paper aims at comparing these two memoirs within the frame of women’s portrait. handling of women depiction in these memoirs in a different way is the focal point of this paper.