She does not want any woman or young female to pass through the kind of life she passed through when she was still young (Allison, 1988). She feels for female characters and wishes no harm to them. Through the life she experienced, she believes that what happened was enough and should not happen to women in general. In her description, she does not give up easily and rarely gives consent to any efforts meant to downgrade her. Considering the kind of life she lived while in Southern Carolina with her family members, Allison’s love to women in general is very strong. She says that the stories have a message of the life experience of a working class cross-eyed lesbian full of hope in life and addicted to violence as well as language. In the preface of these stories known as deciding to live, Allison cuts short the message in all the stories by use of strong descriptive words. “Allison is described as a feminist and a lesbian coming from Southern Carolina in the United States of America” (Allison, 1988, p. It also implies something that is considered a waste or needs to be thrown away. The term trash means something that has no value. She is described as a Southern trash simply because of the life she used to live while still a child.
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