Sunday, September 25, 2011
From the new reading assignment
I feel really bad for Minnie, and I'm afraid that this is going to happen to Mattie. It's so sad because she has so much talent and could be a really cool writer. I hate Jim and Royal, and Mattie needs to wake up from this pretty soon or she will regret it I think. These are my thoughts on some of this week's reading.
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I agree with Minnie. It's almost like they (women) are throwing away the option to pursue a career when they marry. I remember that in one of the earlier readings, Mattie was talking about how she noticed people (and women in particular) couldn't have a career AND a husband, because being a wife would mean doing all of the cooking, cleaning, feeding, raising the children etc. This also relates to Mattie, and how she wants to love someone/be loved, but she also wants to continue writing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with both Ely and Emily. I think it's so awful the situations that women are placed in back then about being so pressured into being stereotypical and also to have children. I keep trying to put myself in that time period to try to image the characters point of view better, but it's so difficult to think that I would have no say in anything and would be treated like a piece of property to men.
ReplyDeleteSame. Minnie defenintly has her hands full with her twins and I think that she really loves Jim, but because he's so stressed he's kind of taking it out on her but I think they'll get over it. :) Mattie is such a talented writer, her problem is that she needs to decide whether she should follow the common route of marriage, or liberate herself and get an education.
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I totally agree with everyone's comments. Minnie is also following a stereotype that women need to cook, clean, and take care of and have children to be a perfect woman/wife. Mattie definitely needs to make up her mind on what she is going to do about college and whether or not she will marry Royal. If Mattie chooses to go to college then she will be breaking a stereotype for all women, which is a small contribution to the small world of college educated women during the early 1900's.
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