Passage Discussion

[LSAT-Chang]

Could someone help me identify the "two" sides in this passage? I wasn't sure exactly what the author was arguing for. I understand that he/she doesn't agree with the critics, but I feel like the author is arguing for something else. Basically I was having a hard time nailing down what exactly the critics were arguing for and what the author/Jacobs was arguing for. Please help!!!

[timmydoeslsat]

After I read the passage, the scale that I visually had in my mind was:

Conforming to convention was good for Harriet's story
- Author: Used the domestic novel as a vehicle for writing to the people she wished to write to, the free women of her day. This group was the principal reader of that type of novel.

- Domestic Novel allows for Harriet to create a tension between what free women are used to reading about and Harriet's actual life experience.

- Domestic Novels are usually framed by men and women meeting, falling in love, overcome obstacles, and eventually marry. Also, they end with a stable home complete with a family.

- Harriet's story shows that those ideas cannot be used to judge her story because she was dealt with problems that free women did not face.

vs.

Conforming to convention was not good for Harriet's story
- Critics: Purposes of the domestic novel overshadows those of the typical slave narrative.