He seems to talk down to the women during the entire story. He then looked inside the cupboard in the kitchen and says, “Here’s a fine mess” (Glaspell 256). This is another form of talking down to women, meaning the kitchen is the women’s place and it should be kept tidy. He also comments on all the hard work Minnie put into her preserves and says, “…she may have something more serious than preserves to worry about” (256). The county attorney’s opinion is that women are just simple, trivial people that are used to worrying over “trifles” (256).
This strongly represents the cultural and societal views of the time because they believed being a housewife was their "sole responsibility". Katherine, the teacher, was criticized and gossiped about because she was older than thirty and not married. My own grandmother, who was about the same age in the 1950's as the students in the film, in fact graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology. However, shortly after, she married, started a family, and did not pursue a career. She has never expressed regret for her decision, but it is a real life example of what society expected of women during that time period.
Treatment towards women in the pass had been a nightmare women were expected to be at home and take care of household type things. for example like cooking , taking care of kids , cleaning , washing clothes , etc. this type of treatment is very sexist men looked down on women when it came to being independent and being able to fend for themselves . Reflect with the story A & P by John Updike the girls that went inside the store with their bikini tops, a soon they enter to store some guys look to their and start talking behind and criticize, the manager of the store Lengel chastises the girls for entering the store in bathing suits, citing store policy. This man is sexiest I can tell this because this man talk rudely to the girls sometimes
Susan never gave up fighting for women’s suffrage. She dedicated her life to giving equal rights to all people. She never got to legally vote in an election, but kept on fighting for what she believed in. She died in 1906, at the age of 86, at her Rochester home. Fourteen years after her death, in 1920 the 19th amendment was passed, giving all adult women the right to
Hopefully the audience will understand that Steinbeck's social criticism implies that he is using the book as a metaphor in order to make a point. For instance, he shows the way Curley's wife was treated in order to how show badly women were treated in many circumstances at that time. Throughout the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck portrays women in a horrible manner; he shows them as unintelligent and unimportant figures. All of the women, including Curley's wife, Lennies Aunt Clara, Clara, Suzy and the women at Clara's bar are shown in this unintelligent and un respectful way. There are many quotes that show this in the book and also information that is understood from the book but not actually written by John Steinbeck.
LKBS. 10-27-09 ESSAY. The fight for women’s equality was a timeless battle. Although a lot of women’s ideas never got taken into consideration, they never stopped fighting to at least put ideas out there. In the late 1770’s and the next hundred years that passed, not a lot was accomplished for women.
Women werent able to vote until the 19th Amendmant was passed in 1920, so its something that we really take for granted. The Leauge of Women Voters aims to be strictly nonpartisan; neither supporting nor opposing candidates for office at any level of government. This is something they stayed true to, as well as something that I really respect. We are constently being pushed in a certain political direction. We get it from our teachers, our family, and sometimes even our friends.
Another character in the play is a very flamboyant hairdresser and his flirty and very ditsy assistant. Also there is a very proper older lady and an older man who is a “used antique dealer”. The play was split into two acts with a 15-minute intermission. The first act is the act in which the murder occurs, and the second act consists of an investigation into the crime and a solution to the mystery. I found it hilarious when an audience member asked the female hairdresser where she bought her hair scissors and the actress replies with at K-Mart, just like where the woman in the audience bought her scarf.
Diversity and Equality Organizations Greta Hill ETH/125-Cultural Diversity July 5, 2015 Nancy Cardenuto The status of women in the United States throughout history has been a difficult one. Women in the United States have had to fight for their rights on many different issues that concerned them and should have never even been an issue that they had to deal with in the first place. In the early 1800’s women were considered second class citizens in the United States. Women were to get married and have children in the early 1800’s. Women were not allowed to own property or earn and keep any wages after marriage.
Maya learned her lesson one day when a group of the white girls came to the store and disrespected her grandmother calling her names, and imitating her. Yet when they all went on there way they said bye to Maya's grandmother, and she replied by saying bye to them and addressing them as “Miz'. This sent Maya into a rage out of which came the knowledge that not every fight needs to be fought. Lastly, Malcolm X writes about how he learned to read, write, and articulate both on and off paper. He talks about how he copied pages from the dictionary everyday and would read aloud to himself what he had written.