This article analyses the ways in which the novel deploys the changeling motif to describe the condition of adolescence, including its awakening to sexuality and desire, and argues that it represents that awakening within a context that affirms female power and community while deconstructing binary oppositions.
Despite the pre-industrial setting and patriarchal society of the novel, McKillip does not depict these roles for the female protagonist as traditional gender-defined possibilities. Abstract : Patricia McKillip's The Changeling Sea, like many fairy tales and many young adult novels, tells the story of the maturation of its protagonist by using fairy-tale conventions such as the changeling motif, McKillip suggests both the confusions and the potential power of adolescent development into adult sexual/romantic and social roles.
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