"While some male authors also use such imagery for implicitly or explicitly confessional projects, women seem forced to live more intimately with the metaphors they have created to solve the "problem" of their fall."
I found this quote interesting, because MEN also use techniques similar to women. Women are victims, I agree, but the point I wanted to focus more on through this quote is that men couldn't use this exact psychological writing technique because they weren't culturally treated the way women were.
I think it unimportant to add a detail such as this in their critical essay because it doesn't reflect on their thesis or their point. Women were treated as victims and were trapped so it was seen in their literature, but men cannot convey this same style in their writing because they don't know it.
Think this makes sense...so why did Gilbert and Gubar add sentiments just like this quote into their essay??
In response to your blog and comments, I think that women can only be used when writing about isolation and discrimination.
As you said, men were not treated in this way at all throughout history. It is important to consider why women began like this?
I think that Gilbert and Gubar used this quote to show how emotion and imagery are a start in order to end, or try to end, the fall of women from a long time ago.
But I think that you hit it right, if there is a right :), when explaining this quote!
I have to agree with derek here, surely things were never exactly the same for men and women. The one change i would have to make, is i had always seen it as a rally call, a place where all women can find common ground.