Womens Relationships And Sandra Cisenerors Only Daughter

How woman are portrayed, and how they are oppressed of power, has been a hot topic for a long while. Although the situation for women has significantly improved, men and women are unfortunately still today not seen as equal. In this essay, two stories are going to be compared and analyzed to describe how two different authors portray women’s power in their respective stories. In Sandra Cisenerors Only Daughter, she writes about the life of a girl living with six brothers and her parents. The author describes the difficulties of the main character constantly being undermined by both her father and brothers. Her brothers do not want to spend time with her because of her gender and her father often refers to her as a boy in the story. The†¦show more content†¦Each time, my father would seek out the parish priest in order to get a tuition break, and complain or boast: ’’I have seven sons.’’ He meant siete hijos, seven children, but he translate d it as ’’sons.’’ ’’I have seven sons.’’ To anyone who would listen. (Quoted in Only Daughter, page 1-2) This quotation shows that the author undermines the woman in the story as she is neglected by her brothers because they do not want to spend time with her and feel that it would be embarrassing to do so. Her father also undermines her by calling her a boy whenever he mentions his children to other people. However, in Joyce Carol Oates text, the main character is also undermined by her family, but the description of how she suffers unfair treatment is clearer and richer in details compared to Sandra Cisneros Only Daughter. In a conversation by the main character Connie and her mother in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been the author gives several types of ways that Connie becomes undermined: ’’Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty?’’ ’’Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed - what the hell stinks? Hair spray? You don’t see your sister using that junk.’’ (Quoted in Where Are