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Page Twenty-Three In John Steinbeck's The Awakening

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Page twenty-three represents the idea of women being seen as objectified, this is when Lutie describes her first time seeing Min. A quote from this section is “next to the sofa there was an overstuffed chair,” as she looked at it she realized that there was a woman sitting in it. She thought to herself, how can anyone sit in a chair and melt into it like that.
Page forty-five was when Lutie was working for Mrs. Chandler, and it mentions that the automatic reaction of white people is that if a girl is colored and she is fairly young in age it probably means that she is a prostitute.
Page fifty-two through fifty-four, was when Pop told Lutie to come home because Jim was having an affair with another woman. When Lutie walked into her home, she …show more content…

Page ninety-six Min told Jones that supper’s ready, he didn’t budge, he expected Min to ask him why, and because she didn’t he felt cheated.
Page one hundred and twelve Jones calls Min a creature by saying “if a creature like Min didn't want him there was no reason for him to believe that Lutie would have him.” Page one hundred and forty, when Jones saw the cross it that says that almost immediately after he saw it, he started backing away from it. Jones wasn’t religious, but he felt that the cross was used to ward off men who lusted after women, men like himself.
Page one hundred and fifty-one, was when Lutie met Boots who gave her hopes for a better life beyond one sixteenth Street. She believed if she got the singing job, then she and Bub can lead a better life.
Page one hundred and sixty-one, Boots took Lutie for a drive and told her very nice and repeated it before leaning in for a kiss. She sought a way to frustrate him without offending …show more content…

I think this was her breaking point.
Page three hundred and ten, Lucie is thinking about what Boots told her, “I could fall in love with you easy baby, he said and the first night he met her and also that “the only thing I'm interested is in you”, but when he drove her home last night he had scarcely spoken to her you made no effort to touch her.”
Page four hundred and twenty-six through four hundred and twenty-seven, Junto is rich as hell Boots told Lutie. Boots was standing close to her, she smelled faintly sweet and he pulled her closer. She tried to back away from him, but he forced her closer to him and held her hands behind her back pulling her even closer and closer, as he kissed her, he felt the excitement well up in him which made him forget all the logical things he meant to say to her. Her skin was soft under his mouth and he fumbled with the fastening of her coat his hand groping towards her breasts, baby he whispered Juno can have you afterwards, I'll have you

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