plete with onlyseems awk women. The main characters can not comprehend how women can survive without the male species because they have never known a woman in their native land who was not in need of a man for survival. The narrator of the story, Van, can be quoted as saying "Why, this is a civilized country! There must be men," (Herland 10See p.688 #1 for format of parenthetical note), only one comma needed here after the qt. as the men are approaching the country from the air. This quote not only symbolizes the thoughts of the three characters but the male-dominated American society as well.
Throughout the novel, the women are observed a
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