/lit/ - Literature

>>16296582
>1984
>fiction

I read a text when I was in college, and it had something to do with socialization. I remember a specific scenario depicted in which the writer describes a funeral scene in which a woman is crying, but argues that the act is done out of a sort of externalized self image, being that she is doing so while aware and concerned of her appearance while crying. I don't remember if the text was about the social experience of women specifically or if it was part of a bigger piece. Does anybody know what it is that I read?