Women's+Roles+in+Society

J. Crowley, R. Tasbihchi Per. 5

Women's Role in Society ex:
 * "Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now, with a spelling book. She worked on me middling hard for about an hour, then the widow made her ease up. I couldn't stood her much longer."(12)
 * Miss Wawtson is portrayed as the middle aged, lonely type of woman in society. She is Huck's guardian and she looks after him, but at the same time she disciplines him and makes him get an education. She represents the unmarried women who stayed home to take care of the youth and/or elderly.
 * " . . . couldn't I put on some of them old things and dress up like a girl? That was a good notion, too. So we shortened up one of the calico gowns and I turned up my trowser-legs to my knees and got into it. Jim hitched it behind with hooks, and it was a fair fit. I put on the sun-bonnet and tied it under my chin, and then for a body to look in and see my face was like looking down a joint of stove-pipe."(57)
 * Huck dresses up as a girl named Sarah Williams. He portays the traits and looks of a stereotypical little girl in the time period.
 * " She grabbed me and hugged me tight; and then gripped me by both hands and shook and shook; and the tears come in her eyes, and run down over;"(223)
 * Aunt Sally personifies the thoughts and beliefs of what motherhood should be. The typical mother of the olden age.