The Mythical Woman and the Problematic Narrator in "The Pear Tree" by Goli Taraghi

This is a literary criticism article examining the short story "Derakht-e Golabi" (The Pear Tree) by Goli Taraqqi, a contemporary Persian literature figure. Drawing on the sociological theory of Pierre Zima, the article argues that women writers follow a distinct creative path shaped by their gendered identity, and that a woman's writing reflects a particular expression of that identity. The analysis shows that Taraqqi uses her story to search for a lost selfhood denied and negated by society, a search that finds expression through the introduction of a new image of womanhood.