Jo Walton on Ursula Le Guin's Tehanu

Jo Walton: A woman on Gont: Ursula Le Guin’s Tehanu:

Le Guin is speaking with a double tongue in [Tehanu:]. On the one hand she’s saying very clearly that women’s domestic lives are central and important, and on the other the force of story is bending everything to have an actual plot, which needs an evil wizard and men and the world of action. The burned child Therru, who has been raped and survived, calls the dragon to the rescue. It’s too easy an answer, as well as being a nice trick...