According to the author Deborah Tannen the article, Sex, Lies, and conversation" is about how differently men and women percieve conversation in their relationship. She states that lack of conversation is wreaking havoc within marriages. this is due to the fact that men and women have very different expectations of communication. Tannen describes how differences in communication start in the childhood socialization. For young girls, conversation is the cornerstone of friendship.
Curley’s wife is portrayed as being a whore – but this is only due to the way she dresses, her provocative ways and the way she acts around men, as if she is aware of her femininity. This could suggest that she is only like this because she is bored, like it is something to do – something interesting for a change. She is constantly trying to get people to notice her. But, because of Lennie’s purity and innocence, he doesn’t see her in the way other men do – a sexual object. When Steinbeck quotes “And because she had confided in him, she moved closer to Lennie and sat beside him”, it is clear to the audience that Curley’s Wife is using her sexuality as an object to create some sort of excitement for herself.
When men aren’t giving the women that same direct eye contact, the women assume that the men aren’t even paying attention. ``the tendency of men to face away can give women the impression they aren’t listening even when they are. Another habit that tannen describes in her essay is the switching of topics. ‘switching topic is another habit that gives women the impression men aren’t listening, especially when they switch a topic about themselves `` when it comes to women in conversation , they will ask probing questions, exert general concern, and express agreement and understanding. Men dismiss each other’s problems very simply and
Sherman and Adelaide Haas in “Man to Man, Woman to Woman”, husbands and wives often have communication issues. That is why men and women talk about different topics. Base on some questions asked to different couple, men and women can rarely talk about the same topics like television, work and movies, but women will react more emotional than men. Then making fun of the other person opinion could easy lead to argument or fights. Men enjoy talking to other man because they don’t have to watch what they are saying and because freedom, playfulness and camaraderie.
However, through the life of the affair each of their perspectives of the opposite sex softens. Affairs were commonplace to Dmitry. In Chekov’s version of the tale, Dmitry has had more than one affair on his wife and that is why he had his downtrodden views of women. The reader’s understanding of Dmitry’s infidelity is at the forefront of Dmitry’s character from the beginning of his story, “He had begun being unfaithful to her long ago-had been unfaithful to her often and , probably for that reason, almost always spoke ill of women,” (205). Dmitry does
Steinbeck uses the word ‘Coulda’ to show that Curley’s wife thinks she had the potential to be a movie star but she ended up with a guy who she hates. We know this because she says ‘I don’t like Curley’, this is interesting because every time she engages into conversation with other men she is always looking for Curley whereas now she says she don’t like him. This makes the reader think that she was using Curley as excuse to communicate with other characters and this shows her desire for attention like we discussed in the previous pare graph but ultimately shows that she is useless without Curley. Steinbeck did this because he wanted the audience to understand not always you get what your dream and not all Americans got the best out the American dreams, some peoples dreams ware destroyed in matter of seconds as we seen in this chapter as Curley's wife dies with it ends Georges Linnes, Curley's wife and Candy's dreams. In Addition, the fact that she thinks that she had the potential to be a movie star links to
5. In the essay I Want a Wife, Judy uses Anaphora: She uses repetition of the words “I want a wife”. She uses this method to show the selfishness of the husbands and men who have wives do almost everything for them. The effect of this method is to make her ideas stronger and stand out. The author also uses irony to add a bit of humor, and also emphasize judgment on men’s idea of the gender roles.
When someone cannot socialize or encounter the same surroundings, they begin to act very talkative and get aggravated easily. For example, when the narrator says, “I get unreasonable angry at John sometimes,” (2). The narrator gets aggravated at everything quickly, such as her husband, the house, her brother’s sister, and that yellow wallpaper. Especially when she says, “I never saw a worse paper in my life,” (3). She is really aggravated with being trapped in the room but projected her feelings toward the
All three stories barely compared, they all just touched on different aspects on how woman were supposed to be for their husbands, and how it would be if they did do as said. Like, in d’Arthur when Guinevere was to be killed. One can also see while reading each piece that each author all have an interpreted feeling that they feel against women in their writings. Like in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d’Arthur, one can get the idea that the authors have a “don’t trust women” set of mind. One can get that idea, being that in both pieces the woman are having an affair with another man, although Sir Gawain and the Green knight was just a joke, it was mostly trying to “teach a lesson” or make a point to men, why one should not trust a women, because of the trickery and games they hold up their sleeves.
The Different Strategies Women and Men Use When Gossiping," Jane Pilkington explores the strategies of gossip amongst both men and women and comes up with the claim that the goal of gossip for both sexes is to maintain solidarity and membership. Her observations also include recognizing the strategies of gossipers in each sex. Her observations led her to believe that females use much more cooperative strategies, while men tended to use uncooperative strategies. Along with maintaining solidarity and membership, Pilkington noticed other functions of gossip as well. These include maintaining good social relationships, entertainment, maintaining traditions, maintaining morals and unity as well as to determine the outsiders from the insiders.