최정희의 초창기 단편소설 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reveal what’s the specialities of early novels written by Choi, Jeong-hee. Her novels in the early period had represented how different characters of women were in 1930’s. She had made with herself stories to her novels. She had described some women were very sluttish girl. They were worked at department store as a cashier or in factory as a clerk. In those times, Most of man workers, old managers, or owners could treated the girls were prostitute on the roads in Chosun. So the writer Choi, Jeong-hee had intended some critics about that culture, patriarchal systems, & the androcentric society. And her novels in the early period had represented some women characters were a member of extramarital family and the head of a family, so that they must had to support economically her family. In addition to the writer Choi, Jeong-hee was a mother of son by extramarital intercourses. She wrote some novels to resist the patriarch society based on confucianism. Because those were was system that was imposed various deficiency on women’s life. But the woman characters were very hysterical & melancholy. That means they had have guilty feelings inner mind, & been suffered from impaired social lives.