Even with complete strangers Miss Schwartz is being taken advantage of. When she goes to buy her wedding dress the story says the salesgirl speaks “sarcastically.” Lena did not stand up for herself, instead she h kept her mouth shut. Besides the salesgirl speaking rudely she also is not helpful when Miss Schwartz needs help finding he perfect dress. This girl is being paid to offer suggestions and give advice to Miss Schwartz, so the employee needs to give Lena the respect she deserves. Miss Schwartz is a people pleaser, and she must learn to treat herself with dignity.
This is a very important piece of the story because it encourages the reader to think deeply about the text. Lengel, the store manager, refers to the group as girls which is very interesting because he could have gone with saying ladies but he didn’t. The reason the author chooses to put the word “girls” in there is to show that Lengel is not entirely respecting the group as young adults. He is really talking down to them and is not treating them as an equal. In a professional setting, or when a manager is talking, typically they would use the term ladies.
In “A&P”, the circumstantial causes intertwine with Sammy’s “choice” causes to create effects which speak directly to the story’s theme. In this short story the circumstantial causes are no the most important causes to the story but show to have some short- term effect. One cause was just when the three girls walked into the store in only their bathing suits. For this reason, it caused to affect Sammy off his work and to watch the girls. Another cause was when Lengel, the manager, saw the girls while they were checking out.
He locked her in a room with a customer and she fought back, angering the customer. “The boss” was very angry and hit Srey, leaving a welt on her face; she was then raped and beaten. To keep her compliant, she was forced to take a pill known as “the happy drug.” Along with her fellow captives, Srey was kept naked and forced to work seven days a week, fifteen hours a day. They were fed scarce amounts of food as customers were dissatisfied with overweight girls. One night some of the girls made a daring escape from the tenth floor apartment that they were housed in, going out onto the balcony to traverse a thin five inch plank across the twelve foot wide chasm between buildings to a balcony on a neighboring building.
I am not skinny or glamorous and I don’t know that much about fashion but I’m smart. I learn fast and I work very hard” This quote emphasises Andy’s surplus of inner belonging and self-satisfaction. At first Andy believes that she will get accepted by her work ethic and diligence rather than her appearance but through constant humiliation from her workplace she is forced to change her attitudes and behaviours towards her appearance. Her colleagues do not make any effort to adumbrate their distaste in Andy’s appearance. “Do you have some hideous
After Crooks asks her to leave, she threatens him, she says “listen nigger, you know what I can do to you if you open your trap?” she discriminates him and puts him down, so she feels in power. She does this as she always feels so much hatred against her as she is a woman and others look down at her, but when faced with Crooks she has the ability to demean him completely as she has the power to not only take his job, but maybe even his life. This makes
The woman was one day approached by Hassan who was asking her if he could get paid before the job was done in which she refused. The workers then ask to use her washroom and while they were using it, she began to worry and wonder if they were going to kill her. To her surprise she saw Hassan who was heading to a wedding, stepped out in nice clean clothes and looked so well dress. Her perception then immediately changes of how she sees them earlier in the story as being unclean and poor. It would now seem as if she accepts them as her
Her need is for change and difference is what I’ll be focusing on as it proves to be quite a powerful idea. When we see her flirting, purposely showing herself off in a sexual manner, I was left with one idea: Variety is the spice of life. An important scene that shows Joyce’s true colors is in her first scene with the plumber, it shows her need to want a change to her normal routine as she shuts out Peg who comes by to come sell her some of her products interrupting her small talk with the man. Her blunt attitude towards Peg revealed through the shutting of the door from an over the shoulder angle view, proved that she didn’t want to waste any time with Peg if that meant losing time with this man, as he proved to be a change in her house-wife routine. This man though small and really uncalled for, did prove that any change no matter how small or meaningless was a welcomed by her.
Even when it is decided that he did not really mean what he said he runs into a lot of students at school who now hate him, especially after his family decides to sue the school. His "friends" were the ones who goaded him on and now they abandon him. Ugly Girl is sort of a punk-type girl, studs in her ears, tall, big (but not fat), and very, very independent. She calls herself Ugly Girl, though, it is not the other students that are doing that. She will stand up to anyone and anything, warrior-women Ugly Girl, as she puts it.
The Aunts teach the Handmaids at the Red Centre about how women are now protected and respected. In reality, Gilead is turning women against women. The girls at the Red Centre are supposed to testify about their past lives, and when Janine confessed she was raped, the other Handmaids didn’t sympathise with her at all but were forced to condemn her that the rape was Janine’s fault because she led them on. And Offred admitted that “We meant it, which was the bad thing”. The condemnation might have started out because they were forced to but eventually the Handmaids enjoy comdemning each other.