Paranoid Religiosity in Jeanette Winterson’s Novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
This paper represents an attempt to give a psycho-religious analysis of the character of Mrs. Winterson, who is the main protagonist of Jeanette Winterson’s debut novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) and her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011). Mrs. Winterson was the author’s adoptive mother, and was characterized …