Abstract
This essay traces the depiction of the ideal bridegroom in fairy tales, eighteenth- and nineteenthcentury novels and memoirs, and its effect on Effi’s sense of identity and marriage to Innstetten. There follows a brief analysis of Innstetten’s own identity crisis. The conclusion considers the function of empty domains in the portrayal of social roles and constraints, and their effect on text and reader.
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