In the story “The Payoff” by Susan Perabo, the narrator Anne is drawn into a scheme well beyond her years. As a sheltered young girl she is acutely aware of her naïveté of the complexity of adult life and adult relationships. But after stumbling upon her principal and young art teacher in a sexual act, Anne by the urging of her more mature best friend Louise, joins in the plan to blackmail them for just twenty dollars. Louise is obviously an influence on Anne and pushes her in a direction Anne knows would make her parents disappointed. However, she agrees to the plan without much resistance, probably because she is fascinated by the sexual relationship she now finds herself innocently involved in, unbeknownst to the adults involved.
Stella is the wife of Stanley and also the main character in my opinion. She’s a huge dope, who’s fallen in love with the wrong guy. Even after Stanley hits her she still comes back to him “There is the sound of a blow [and] Stella cries out”. She’s blinded by how things used to be between them when they first started dating. Stella is willing to look past everything Stanley does because she loves him and that makes her the fool of the play.
She is the demon seed of a child will do anything to be the lead in her school musical. Tina and Louis had argument at the rehearsal of the musical, after "begging nicely and saying please," Tina has evil thought of murdering the poor girl Louise by hanging her with the jump rope and to be the lead of the show. Tina's crime is discovered, she is sent away to the Daisy Clover School for Psychopathic Ingenues in the ACT II. After two years, she come out and goes to find her mother who turned into a talented performer in NYC. The tragedy starts from here.
In Trifles, the women come to a realization that they must bond together against their clueless husbands to see justice done. In the Yellow Wallpaper the narrator frees herself from her jail and jailer and builds herself an alternate reality, free in her own mind from what is oppressing her in spite of her actual captivity. However different the authors tell their stories, both expose male superiority to be an illusion and its inevitable by-products of estrangement and loneliness to be very real. A feminist critic reading these two stories would immediately recognize the author’s attempts to portray the male
Pham further details the feats of Chi during their escape. “Chi took her turn in the hold, bailing as hard as the men” (Pham 118). It is most likely though, that her exposure to prostitution, which she almost experienced, leads Chi to feel the oppression of being a woman and the need to explore a more masculine lifestyle. She, along with
With no father figure or even a biological mother to help her in her adolescent years, Beli depended on La Inca to look to as a teen. In school Beli was an outcast to her schoolmates until she developed her womanly body, which helped her to attract the guys of her choice. As a woman her feminine curves attracted the likes of the Gangster, signifying the beginning of her tango with the curse. Becoming pregnant with the Gangsters child quickly alerted the attention of Trujillo’s sister causing Beli to be brutally beaten in the cane field, representing the violence of the “fuku” due to the dysfunctional love between Beli and the Gangster. “How she survived I’ll never know.
Sex and Young Girls In Kilbourne’s “Two Ways A Woman Can Get Hurt” she speaks extensively about how advertising could have many underlying and shocking meanings when analyzed closer. Some factors that Kilbourne speaks of in her essay allow us to look deeper into the hidden concepts of advertising and show a world of suggestive sex and abuse. Many of the ads allowed us take a closer look at how woman are portrayed as objects to sell a product. I believe that many of underlying factors influence our young girls. Many of the ads today give an image that in order to be happy and satisfied in life you have to be sexual or look sexy to get ahead.
A feminist point of view would find these women to be flawed, for they cannot survive without the assistance of a man. The book tells the story of a “manly life” in first person dialogue. Considering every female Odysseus encounters “falls in love” with, we can equate that he makes his own problems based off of his ego. In a way, the Odyssey is not just the tale of the wanderings of Odysseus. The poet has made it into a type of descriptive catalog of women, in which he examines women of all kinds and from all backgrounds through objectification.
Fitzgerald used characterization and symbolism to establish the theme: many people live a lie and pretend to be someone else. As soon as the novel starts, readers are thrown into the Buchanan’s unfaithful relationship and soon get introduced to Myrtle, Tom’s mistress. Throughout the short time she appears in the novel, Fitzgerald characterizes her as a woman who yearns for wealth but doesn’t quite reach it. This is displayed when Fitzgerald lists the things she does before getting to her and Tom’s love nest—buys “a small flask of perfume” and letting “four taxicabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with gray upholstery” (27). Purple signifies royalty and wealth, and by waiting to sit in the lavender-colored taxi, Fitzgerald once again demonstrates her yearning for money.
There are many graphic descriptions of drug-induced hallucinations, deep depression and mental anguish, suicide attempts, and acts of prostitution. There is no mistaking the writing talent on display, which is nothing short of amazing from the pen of a young teenager. Evelyn's desperate search for the affection and loving attention that she so obviously lacked at home leads her to easily believe that she is falling in love with an assortment of men, from a social worker to a drug pusher to her psychiatrist. But as a girl who hates herself, she is clueless about the skills needed to establish proper human relationships, and she stumbles into prostitution as a substitute means to feel needed. And all her emotional emptiness is dulled by an endless amount of drugs, that progress from marijuana to