Bandana Beach

In "A Woman's Hand," Bandana Beach is the location where Clem Dowson lives. At the start of the short story, Evelyn and Harold Fazackerley take a walk on the beach together and observe the glass houses along their way. They then spot Clem in the distance and he invites them into his humble dwelling, which he recently built. "[T]he wood house" is built on "what [is] practically a cliff," and to Evelyn suggests no "ease or skill in its execution" (9). In fact, the house's "defenseless amateurishness" rouses "dark-red scorn" in her (9). However, Harold admires the house's "painfully achieved proportions, and sees "a kind of honesty" in "its out-of-plumb match-stick stairway and exposed seaward balcony" (9). The house therefore is an extension of Clem himself. The way that Evelyn and Harold see the house reveals the way that they each see Clem. Evelyn disdains Clem and his way...