The Waitress By Billy Collins Analysis

Spradley and Mann chose to do their research at Brady’s bar because it is an ordinary setting where they could study interactions between male and female. First, Brady’s Bar provided a setting to define the female role. Secondly, it is a place where both male and female interactions are important and reflect traditional aspects of larger society. Lastly, the traditional aspects of Brady’s signified the traditional view of how women should present themselves as passive sex objects whose status is of lower hierarchy than men.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, " Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." The people who do not allow others to have their rights, do not deserve the rights they are withholding. This applies during the American Renaissance. This time period was filled with women's rights speakers, black's rights speakers, and authors who right on the topic of society's responsibility for the homeless and poor. Frederick Douglass argues for black's rights, Herman Melville discusses how the homeless are treated in society, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fights for the equality of men and women. The author and speakers all focus on the issue of moral struggle and social justice and fight for what they believe is right.

The novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” written by Jamie Ford is a compelling novel about a young Chinese American boy name Henry. Henry is growing up after the Pearl Harbor incident and the start of the internment camps for Japanese Americans. Henry’s ethnicity as a Chinese American affects his childhood in being bulled in school, having a distant relationship with his parents, and causes issues with his first love Keiko, a Japanese American girl.

Every establishment that she applies would rather hire her as a waitress because she is white and speaks English. When applying to Hearthside, Ehrenreich even downgrades herself in order to attain a job as a housekeeper. “I mutter about being woefully out of practice as a waitress, but he’s already on to the uniform” (Ehrenreich, 16). However, even though the author attempts to prove she would not make a good waitress, her employer is already stubborn and thinks that she is more worthy as a server as opposed to a housekeeper. So why did her boss make her a waitress when she clearly wanted to be a housekeeper? Her boss made her a waitress simply, because he used stereotypes to judge the author. Therefore, her boss only saw a white woman who was better equipped with serving skills even though Ehrenreich believed she had better housekeeping skills. Now, sadly if a fluent English speaking Hispanic applied to the same job, she would only be hired as a housekeeper. In fact, she would be rejected as a waitress for the same reason that the author couldn’t become a housekeeper; the of color her skin. In today’s society, when someone thinks of a hotel maid, they think of a Latin woman who isn’t fluent in English. It is this very stereotype that affects the type of job a low-wage job a person receives simply because of the color of their skin and not their personal abilities.

All three passages, Clark Benson’s "The Case Against Women’s Suffrage", Alice Duer Miller’s "Are Women People?", and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "She Walketh Veiled and Sleeping”, revolve around the social matter of women’s rights. However, each literary work portrays a different perspective on the issue. Indeed, between the mid-1800s and the late 1900s, societal imbalance was a significant U.S. controversy, in which diverse literary authors addressed their support or opposition towards women’s rights. Indubitably, the individual authors of the three passages possess disparate views, each asserting their assessment of the social debate.

Defying the PC Police, he goes into cases about political correctness as well as censorship. He opens the essay saying, "Bartenders are told to avoid discussing two subjects with drinkers: religion and politics." This is because like previously stated these topics cause the most controversy.

We are all raised in a world where a man’s voice is louder and more meaningful than a woman's. Whether we choose to realize it or not, it is the truth. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck shows just how much louder a man's voice is compared to a woman's. Throughout the novel, there is a scarcity of respect towards a woman’s voice, whether it be shown from a husband, a migrant worker, or a bystander. Society's lack of respect towards women specifically during the Great Depression era is displayed through interactions with Susy’s place, Aunt Clara, and Curley’s wife in Of Mice and Men.

As Angelou’s essay continues, she writes how she had the opportunity to work in Mrs. Viola Cullinan's kitchen, a white and wealthy woman from Virginia. Angelou was generally curious as Mrs. Cullinan showed her the differences in silverware and plates, but as she continues to write she still seemed jealous. She seemed jealous to the point she was bothered that Mrs. Cullinan could

In the passage “ Serving In Florida” by Barbara Ehrenreich, she addresses the life of an individual who is trying to handle many jobs that offer low income including the struggles and responsibilities needed while living below the poverty line. Ehrenreich first starts off with a metaphor about the digestive system saying, “ Actually, there are three folding chairs at a table immediately adjacent to the bathroom, but hardly anyone ever sits here, in the very rectum of the gastro-architectural system.” However, when the thought of a restaurant with food and a human body stem are being compared, it’s usually not a positive feeling, but in fact a negative feeling instead. Therefore, this quote is giving us a perspective on how work is like on her side, and that it’s not an environment that treats anyone well or makes the co-workers in a positive mood. Ehrenreich sets the tone of this passage very negatively when she states, “... as if they were confusing waitressing with Mary Magdalene’s original profession.” Mary Magdalene’s original profession was prostitution, therefore, when Ehrenreich refers to waitressing just like prostitute, she is saying that waitressing is just as horrible as being a prostitute and that when customers walk into the restaurant, they look at the

Eavan Boland’s poem “It’s a Woman’s World” illuminates the fact that history has shaped an unfair role for women in today’s society. Boland criticizes the gender bias with regards to the limitations placed on women and their job choices despite their ability to be just as successful in the workplace as men. Regardless of the fact that the bias against women in the workplace is often overlooked, Boland aims to show the shared reaction of women to the gender bias prevalent in our society by using short sentence fragments, repetition, and a fire motif throughout the poem.

In this satirical article, Brady expresses the difference between the roles of women and men in the 1970’s by stating men’s point of view on women and women’s roles in society. Throughout her article, Brady emphasizes the roles of women. For example, women could now “work and...takes care of the children when they are sick”. Comparing the 1880’s to the 1970’s, there has been a big improvement. Many women had jobs outside their home, but still were responsible for most housework and childcare while their husband’s only responsibility in a marriage was to go to work and earn money to support the family. Society’s expectations allowed women to work outside the home to support college education for husbands; however,women had to know how to balance their time between their children and their jobs, making sure that their husbands “cannot miss classes at school.” During the 1970’s, women were still oppressed in many ways and had to follow society's expectations in order to live up to the men’s view of women’s roles in society. Even though society’s expectations of women had improved since The Awakening, most of women’s roles had stayed the same. In the article, Brady specifies how once a husband is “through with school and has a job, [he expects the] wife to quit working and remain at home so that [she] can more fully and completely take

Women have long been fighting for their right to be seen as equal to men. Even to this day, women continue to fight for their rights, things such as the right to non-gender discriminatory wages. While there may be some arguments over the state of gender equality in the modern world, it is undeniable that there have been great strides made toward recognizing the female 's worth in the workforce and as a human being. Despite these strides, however, things are still not yet ideal for women and many of the issues females face today are the very same issues that have been plaguing them for decades. While it is unfortunate the oppression of women has been so long-lived, the length of that exposure has thankfully enabled many talented writers to both lament over the fact and emphasize the need for gender equality.

Janie and her grandmother represent a culture of women that were stereotyped into a specific gender role, putting them as the last class in society. They received no compensation or respect for their services. Their work specifically benefited only those they worked for, and supported. Through compromising themselves in this way these women were subjected to even more maltreatment.

The hit broadway musical, The Waitress, features Jessie Mueller and Drew Gehling in a love triangle as Jesse's character, Jenna, falls for Gehlings character, Dr. Pomatter, when he alludes to his feelings for her in the song, It only takes a taste. Prior to this scene, Jenna was stressing out about her newly discovered pregnancy and was thinking about how much her husband had been drinking, and with all of this uncertainty plaguing her life, Jenna turns to Pomatter and allows all of her walls to fall. What does Pomatter do instead of council Jenna? He decides to hint at strong feelings for her, seemingly adding more to her plate. Dr. Pomatter uses metaphors, and allusions to better articulate the prominent theme of Jenna either making things better or things being better with her there to experience them.

Gender discrimination is an issue that is ongoing since the colonial times. However, the fight against gender discrimination is not just an issue of the past, but also an issue of the present. In the current 21st century, there are many people who are still fighting for women's equality in society. Women are still getting paid less than men, and are still looked down upon in certain career paths. More action is needed to bring awareness to people about the inequality women still struggle through. More people need to be informed about the inequality women face. Adelaide Labille Guiard’s oil painting in Paris from 1749-1803 called Self Portrait with Two Pupil, served as a propaganda to fight for women’s attendance in the French Academie Royale. It illustrates a self portrait of Guiard, herself, and two of her pupils, Marie Gabrielle and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond. In her self portrait, she paints herself in an art studio while her two pupils are by her side. Like Guiard’s self portrait, more effort through social media and the arts