This story projects the struggle in the Patriarchy society, which was present at the time of the protagonist’s physical presence and in the time period in which she takes us. The whole story is visualized from the women’s point of view. This novel gives us vivid multiple pictures of lives especially of the disruptive forces, which were in force in the time when she was physically present and the disruptive forces at work in the future. Published in 1976, the words portray vivid pictures of lives of her present state and the life she wants in the future. Through Connie Ramos, Marge takes us into the worlds, the world in which she is physically available and in the world of future, the world that is going to come for her after150 years-into the world of Mattapoisett. She began to have visions of the life of the year 2137. Behind these walls, her mind travels into the future. Her novel, Woman On The Edge of Time is an enthralling story of a middle aged women, Connie Ramos aged 37, totally improvised and abused, put in the confinement of the four walls of psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital, when she could not bear the trauma of violence in her home. As a woman, she was grasped in the jaws of time bearing innumerable pains that life has given to her that she adorably captured in this drama of Woman who swept herself over on the edge of future. Marge Piercy born on 31st March 1936 in Detroit led a very depressive life.
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