Ruby Fruit Jungle Heroism

People say Ruby Fruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown is a picaresque novel, and I would agree with that statement. Molly is the appealing hero in this book, even if not everyone notices. She takes her life into her own hands, by not wanting to be what every other women wants to be and that’s a house wife. Molly would rather be a film maker, the next president, or a lawyer, which is all things women are not commonly found. This hero goes through many rough things in these first nine chapter, and the first one is being part of a family that is not biologically hers’. Carrie, Molly’s mother, believed that every child lied, so anytime Molly tried to defend herself she was automatically put down. In chapter one, Molly and Broccoli is making money off of him showing his “strangest dick in the world” to their peers by the woods. Their plan was working until one day Earl Stambach ratted them out and both of their parents were called by the

Leroy’s real mother, Jennifer, was pregnant. After giving birth to her child, who only lasted two days, they discovered Jennifer had cancer. The disease took her life, that summer. In chapter five, Molly learns she does want to get married compared to the last chapter when she swore she would never marry anyone. The difference is that she would rather marry Leota B. Bisland, a women. Molly would do anything for Leota, something we have not seen from her yet, since she is usually very much for herself. She learns what it is like to kiss her, and how weird and good it makes her feel inside. Molly learns about sex with both genders and what she likes more. Having sex with Leota made her feel strange things in her stomach. She enjoyed it much more than having sex with Leroy. This is not saying she did not hate doing it with him, Molly said she liked the way he felt inside, but it was clear she enjoyed having sex with Leota