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In the fiction written by Roupenian Kristen "Cat Person," the New Yorker story, concentrated the attention of a storyteller on her hero, an undergraduate of the age twenty years known as Margot. The story is based on the point of view of Margot that Kristen separated this specific story. Margot meets a person known as Robert, two or three years her senior and after that progressively message with him, plays with him, goes ahead to a date with the person, sleeps and finally, says a final farewell to him. The author Kristen’s Cat person is striking as well as a decent story in our society and shows muddled life of one lady Margot’s emotional change. The purpose of the fiction, the author Kristen is to tell audience the social signs perplexity, the vagueness of Margot’s eyes emoticon, the self-seen through the eyes of the other, and the sex that is awful, but not quantifiably Bad. Into this steps Cat person, investigates how seriously individuals can misread each other, yet in addition how unnerving and troublesome sexual experiences can be for ladies, specifically. It isn 't a tale about …show more content…

This is a hashtag in social media how sexual assault and harassment is wide spreaded in our society and people need to recognize the problem. More frightening news is there were actually a lot women experienced those situations even in the daily life. In the cat person, Margot is not rejecting Robert’s action even though she wasn’t willing to have relationship with him, but she’d done it anyway. It depicts how sad is it to see how women are felt forced to have a sex with men to fulfill their pride. Responding with rejection seems to challenge the men’s ego and rather saying about I have a boyfriend or I’m married would be better reaction in those situation to pass this

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