Before writing this essay I decided to look up the word “Oppression”, which means the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control. I thought about this and notice how women are more likely to be in this state of being, due to most women being sensitive, vulnerable, and caring. In the short stories of Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, Girls At War by Chinua Achebe, and Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, one can recognize how there are women in these stories who are oppressed in some type of way; however, find a way to escape this oppression although they’re unjustifiable oppression ends up strengthening them and leading to their success. Personally, I am a man who appreciates what women do in society, at home, everywhere because if it was not for women us men would not be here and could not continue living.
In the book, Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat,
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In the short stories of Interpreter Of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, the stories of Sexy and Mrs. Sen both demonstrate how many women all over the world have to deal with oppression in some moment of their lives. In the story Sexy, Miranda is oppressed by Dev due to him being the first man she has dated who is thoughtful, romantic, and valiant. On page 91, while Miranda and Dev were at the Mapparium, Dev whispers “You’re sexy” (Lahiri 91). This was the first time she’d been told she was sexy and she continues to have the affair with Dev. At one point Miranda realizes that what she is doing is wrong and makes plans every Sundays so that Dev would not come over to her apartment. Therefore, Miranda was oppressed by Dev because according to her, he was the first man to make her feel special and even though she knew that she was his mistress she was okay with. Overall, one can obviously see that Dev was only using Miranda and kept her under his wing by being a gentleman and saying things like “You’re sexy”, so that she could feel they actually had a chance to be in a stable