The unequal distribution of domestic responsibilities has held women back for generations; it still today continues to hinder women’s progression in the work-place. It seems like everyone thinks mum will stay at home and do the dishes, her little boy will grow up to become a big, strong man but not her daughter, of course, she is far too busy washing her own children’s dishes. But it is not just women who suffer sexism, men do also. For example: Shelia’s Wheels sell cheaper car insurance to women only, and they say it's because statistics show women to be safer drivers. Would it would be fair for a bank to offer men better rates on loans if stats showed that men were better at paying back loans than women were, utterly ludicrous.
Whereas she seems to belong more in glitzy and glamorous world, in an easy and out going life. The ranch hands, as seen from the fact that she is given no identity of her own as she is dubbed “Curley’s wife”, objectify her. She is the only woman in the ranch, which isolates her even further since she has no one of similar views and interest to talk to. She is vain, flirtatious and very gullible, which is easily picked up on since she believed out of her own delusions that her mother hid the letter, which told her if she was going to become an actress. This causes her to enter a loveless marriage with Curley, which she believed in self-delusion, was going to provide her a glamorous lifestyle.
The reader’s first impression of Curley's wife. The reader's first of the terrible temptress is that Curley’s Wife is a beautiful woman who constantly shows off her beauty to the men on the ranch. She dresses inappropriately for a woman married to the boss's son. She is always looking to be the centre of attention. As the men are working on the fields all day Curley’s Wife has nothing to do but hang around.
This is how you thank me for getting you a man when you’re such a dried-up old maid that no one want to give a look on you.” Giving in to the demands of her father, Bessie marries Zalmon, the fish market owner, and raises his children. Is this the thanks Bessie gets after handing all of her hard earned money to her father? Bessie does not get the life in which she had once dreamed and continues to live in the same small, poor, dirty community. As for Sara, the youngest of the children, she adjusted to the new world and its offerings. She did not agree with how her father treated
However, I believe that her personal motive in the story was not trying to have an affair, but simply trying to have companionship and to have someone to talk to. Curley’s wife, being the only woman on the farm, feels lonely and is obligated to be a typical housewife that stays at home all day to cook and clean. However, Curley’s wife is not that type tamed woman that would sit still like that. She dreams of starring in movies and becoming famous. She had bigger dreams than just being a housewife and I think being the only woman on the farm stifles her.
To the extent that when Inman and Ada finally reunite Inman hardly recognizes her. At the beginning of the film Ada is portrayed as innocent. Ada is highly intelligent and her education seems to have sheltered her from the real world. As the war progresses Ada loses her father, and is now without a male figure in her life now that Inman is gone off to war. Ada has been left penniless, and all alone to tend a broken down farm which she has no knowledge of how to run.
In a nutshell, a book within another book. Using approximately eight different mentions of books in her novel, Butler uses the affection created by them to further elucidate her theme of Kindred. Perhaps one of he most important listings, and also the first reference to a book, is in The Fall(page84). Kevin, Dana’s husband, argues with Dana about whether or not they remain at the Weylin plantation. They decide that Dana moves into his room, and Dana accepts but opposes the idea of Weylin’s negligence of Margret’s lack of ability to read the Bible.
She had married herself in to the Creole culture. Edna not does not exactly fit into the creole society and does not understand their typical lifestyle. Edna feels oppressed by society, as she does not believe in the role she’s expected to play by the society. Which is to be the mother like figure and in addition to be caring for your husband and be attentive to all his needs. Yet Edna is not the typical woman, as she believes in expressing herself and living freely without society’s rules and oppression holding her down.
Steinbeck uses character relationships to create an impression of the characters so that the reader can begin to imagine what they are like. Curley’s wife is seen to be a lowly, devious woman by the majority in the farm that will do anything and hurt anyone to make herself feel better. As she is a woman, at the time she is seen as an inferior to the male workers. She is married to the bosses’ son, Curley, and their relationship is a poor one. We can see that Curley clearly treats her as a trophy wife as her name ‘Curley’s wife’ shows that she is practically his property and he owns her.
I have the most wonderful children in the world. They are the most important part of my life and a big reason I wanted to return to school, but they are also the reason I felt was so difficult to go back. It is very hard being a full time mom and I work a full time job all while going to school. I have to make sure their homework gets done, dinner gets cooked, clothes get washed, kids get washed and clean up afterwards. I knew before returning to school that it would be hard to accomplish everything but somehow I will find the time to be a great mother as well as a good student.