Shunammite Ines Arredondo Analysis
The stories I have selected to compare are The Shunammite by Ines Arredondo who was a Mexican writer and A&P by John Updike, an American writer. Arredondo’s story took place in Sinaloa, Mexico on the other hand Updike’s story took place in a grocery store called A&P. In the story, The Shunammite, Luisa was being sexually objectified by her uncle Polo. While in the story A&P, Sammy was sexually objectifying the three girls especially Queenie. For both stories, The Shunammite and A&P the point of views will be compared in order to understand… In both stories, The Shunammite and A&P, the main characters are either objectifying or being objectified. “I uncrease the bill, tenderly as you may imagine, it just having come from between the two smoothest scoops of vanilla I had ever know were there, and pass a half and a penny into her narrow pink palm...” The main character Sammy compares Queenie’s breast to scoops of vanilla after she takes out a dollar from inside her top. “…when his shaking hand, taking advantage of my amazement, became surer and heavier, and enjoyed itself, adventuring with no restraints, …show more content…
“ The comparison between uncle Polo and Queenie after “We are decent, Queenie says suddenly, her lower lip pushing getting sore now that she remembers her place, a place from which the crowd that runs the A&P must look pretty crummy.” (the explanation) “What? Aren’t you my wife before God and men? Come here, I’m cold, heat my bed. But first takes off your dress, you don’t want to get it creased” After Luisa marries her uncle Polo, he takes advantage even more without having no consideration over Luisa’s
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