The Odd Women, by George Gissing, is a story that centers upon the decisions that people make in life and the outside factors that influence these decisions. Gissing looks at the situations of five different women and utilizes their lives to make...

The character’s aspects presented by an individual in order to be perceived by others are known to form his persona. Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung identified this as a psychological component of the individual himself, “a kind of mask, designated...