In the novel “Two or three things I know for sure by Dorothy Allison”. Allison writes about the female perspective on how men and women are portrayed in her life by saying “Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made” (51). This quotes deals with gender roles and the idea that were limited to certain things. I believe this women implies that women were too focused on being a women that prevent them for doing something else/ different. I believe this quotes also implies or what the author is trying to says is that it would have been easy if Allison give up hope and fall into dangerous patterns of the rest of the women in her life, which be allowing history to repeat itself but instead Allison maintained strength trough her belief in a separate reality/way.
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I completely agreed regarding Allison’s perspective of maintaining her stance for herself in society. Because women always tend to stay within a focus mindset being a housewife – “limited to certain things.” Even if they try to do something different, chances are they remain and move onward or retrieve backwards and pretend nothing happened. However, I personally think women should strive on to overcome men and their superiority.
I do share you opinion, i do believe that women should overcome men and their superiority and to stop believing, to put a stop to the society perspective and prove we are capable to do more stuff and better than men, to stop that” limited to certain things” or “housemaid/ housewife”