Male Female Relationships in Literacy
Male Female Relationships in Literacy
In the readings we have done thus far, the majority of them show women under the control of men. “The Revolt of Mother”(Freeman), for example depicts “mother” taking the control away from man or “Father”, as they are called in the story. She does this by taking all of their things and moving them into the new barn “Father” has built for the animals. I see the same correlation in the story of “Sweat” (Hurston), as Delia decides instead of putting up with Sykes crap she will just go on without paying him any mind. “Delia and Sykes fought all the time now with no peaceful interludes. They slept and ate in silence.” She didn’t care that Sykes was sleeping with Bertha because she didn’t love him anymore. Delia did everything for Sykes; in fact she was their only source of income. I think that “mother” felt the same way. She had been a loyal wife for 40 years and did everything she could to please “father” and all she wanted in return was a house. However it wasn’t that “mother” that didn’t love her husband anymore, she was probably just sick of living the same life for 40 years. Imagine the redundancy, its not like there were a lot of fun things to do in this kind of rural setting. I mean she got up fixed breakfast, did chores, made lunch, did more chores, made dinner and cleaned up. You can not blame her for wanting to get a new house. There is just something that is inspiring about change in life. It can be refreshing. I perceived the relationship between Sykes and Delia was dramatically different from that of “mother” and “father”. Sykes was always looking at the women around town, cheated on Delia on numerous occasions and she was quite aware of it. Needless to say, Delia most likely had very little respect or love for Sykes. “Mother” however was devoted to her husband and respected him greatly. She did his laundry when needed, cooked his favorite meal on Saturday’s and always made him pies. The women in two stories had overcome large obstacles in there quest for “freedom” of control. But in the end their courage proved to be worth the...