Cannery Row Essay
1st Essay
Since the beginning of history, women have been commended on their natural ability to nurture and their ability to not only nurture children, but everything they take interest in. Unfortunately their interests have always been limited. They are denied the right to be fascinated by anything that doesn’t align with the traditional roles of a woman and that is to: cook, clean, submit to her husband, bear children, and look “pretty”. Don’t get me wrong, they are not undesirable attributes, however society and history declare that those are the only qualities a woman can bear merely because she is a woman. She is labeled fragile, needy, and incompetent all because she can only do what society dictates she must do. That is the is the sermon …show more content…
One way way he illustrates that was through the character, Dora, the owner of a fine establishment called “The Bear Flag Restaurant.” Males and females alike admired her for her commitment to the building and the people who worked there. She treated both as if they were her children and just like a mother, she protected, raised, and disciplined her offspring. She maintained her business by grooming it and arranging it-making it a place that made one fill at home. She also managed to make it prosperous by incorporating her own values into her staff. She instilled in them honesty, dignity, good conduct, grace, and compassion. You could especially see these traits in the girls of bear flag. For instance, even though the Restaurant was often packed with men and it was the girls jobs to meet their needs, no girl ever dared to “speak to [them] on the street,” go out with them, or practice any “dirty” activities with them because they were trained. They learned not to associate themselves with vulgar-crude people in order to be taken seriously. Now, even though Dora often got bullied by police because she was a women with a dream, she remained well behaved and kept to herself. Her job was not to fight or to be popular, it was to be a good role model to all aspiring
Since the beginning of history, women have been commended on their natural ability to nurture and their ability to not only nurture children, but everything they take interest in. Unfortunately their interests have always been limited. They are denied the right to be fascinated by anything that doesn’t align with the traditional roles of a woman and that is to: cook, clean, submit to her husband, bear children, and look “pretty”. Don’t get me wrong, they are not undesirable attributes, however society and history declare that those are the only qualities a woman can bear merely because she is a woman. She is labeled fragile, needy, and incompetent all because she can only do what society dictates she must do. That is the is the sermon …show more content…
One way way he illustrates that was through the character, Dora, the owner of a fine establishment called “The Bear Flag Restaurant.” Males and females alike admired her for her commitment to the building and the people who worked there. She treated both as if they were her children and just like a mother, she protected, raised, and disciplined her offspring. She maintained her business by grooming it and arranging it-making it a place that made one fill at home. She also managed to make it prosperous by incorporating her own values into her staff. She instilled in them honesty, dignity, good conduct, grace, and compassion. You could especially see these traits in the girls of bear flag. For instance, even though the Restaurant was often packed with men and it was the girls jobs to meet their needs, no girl ever dared to “speak to [them] on the street,” go out with them, or practice any “dirty” activities with them because they were trained. They learned not to associate themselves with vulgar-crude people in order to be taken seriously. Now, even though Dora often got bullied by police because she was a women with a dream, she remained well behaved and kept to herself. Her job was not to fight or to be popular, it was to be a good role model to all aspiring