Of course! They’re closely related in many aspects of her life, noted in her style of writing. As Toni Morrison said we are caught in a world where dictators, fools are in charge of the most part of our activities. This world's impact has to be abolished/erased from people's perspective, even a minority has to do all the work by themselves, THIS IS A CLAIM FOR HUMANITY! The writer profile given by Toni Morrison is a clear example of what Mary Gaitskill tries to express in her work, we can appreciate the conception of censorship in her short stories, but in the very own way that Mary Gaitskill develops them. We talk about a "non-censorship" that gives a tremendous meaning to her writing, "a romantic weekend" is the proof of that, while reading this short story you feel the chaos that Beth is living, trapped in a sado-masochistic relation that turns the sequence into something desperate and passionate with a morbid sense; or in "secretary" how this apparently "common" woman became a savage lover that explores a completely new sexual world with her employer. Mary Gaitskill shows how people’s judgment does not matter in the development of her "pieces of art".
We can also see in Gaitskill's work the perception of violence (described by Toni Morrison as one of the tools of Chaos with naming), however, her characters seem to be in perfect harmony with that issue, because they love feeling absorbed by external facts and the inside part that it takes consequently. We can say that Mary Gaitskill's stories take part in society issues, not in the common way (showing what is 'correctly good') but making a reflection (inner reflection) developed by oneself. This nightmare as Toni Morrison presented is called society and is up to us to find a widely-opened view of what we want to happen in this unknown world.
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