Women's+Roles+in+Society-P4



=**__Women's Roles in Society__**= By: A. Rivera & N. Oliver



//"You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way. And when you throw at a rat or anything, hitch yourself up a tiptoe and fetch your hand up over your head as awkward as you can, and miss your rat about six or seven foot. Throw stiff-armed from the shoulder, like there was a pivot there for it to turn on, like a girl; not from the wrist and elbow, with your arm out to one side, like a boy. And, mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together, the way you did when you catched the lump of lead. Why, I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle..."// -Chapter 11


 * Mrs. Loftus was trying to explain to Huck how he was //supposed// to act if he was going to impersonate a girl
 * A women was considered weaker and incapable in the eyes of not only men but the women themselves
 * A real girl would throw "like a girl", be scared "like a girl", and sew "like a girl"

//Widow Douglas and Miss Watson//


 * They both decided to take in Huck and treat him as their own
 * Widow Douglas takes the role of a kindhearted mother
 * Miss Watson is the stricter of the two
 * Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas are made to be stereotypical mothers of a household. Twain uses two separate characters and create a parental duo
 * One is gentle, the other enforces the rules.
 * A mother might do both of those things, but when only one person in a family is the kind and loving person, you would probably call them the mother
 * If there was another person who was strict and wanted you to abide by the rules, then they would be more like a father figure.