On a spring day four black widow spiders (two initially males and 2 initially females) climbed a tree in pairs of the opposite sex. One couple were foreigners in America, the other was not. They were all at the peak of their sexuality and were about to perform a mating ritual called sex. When the strangers were finished, the male became very tired and all he wanted to do was sleep, but the much larger female was flighty and talkative. She wanted to talk about their recent sexual experience, but the male was too tired and told her to shut up. Like all women, she became emotionally frightened and in retaliation killed her much younger spouse. Not exactly the June Cleaver type of spider, is it? On the other side of the tree are American widows. The female does not feel sexually active, but spreads her eight legs and submits in honor of her idea of a “great male cause.” The fact is that the American woman has never had the opportunity to fulfill her mission (which is inherent in every man) to thrive in life, but she cannot do so since she is confined to the kitchen, busy washing dishes and saying “ . . .yes dear. Would you like another beer?" The role of the American woman (who had to take care of the man of the house and the house itself) is vividly exemplified by Linda Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Of course Arthur knows all about the role of women in American society, how do you think her dishes were washed while she was writing this play Before we get into the juicy meat of this essay, let's get one thing straight. Take Lady Macbeth from William Shakspere's Macbeth. It's such a shame that his own men beheaded him at the end of the play. Look at Eve from the Bible in the book of Genius he couldn't have ruined it for the rest of humanity without Eva's guidance. And look at Mrs. Ramsay from Robertson Davies Fifth Business Without her, poor Dunny probably wouldn't have joined the army and still have the leg he has lost in war.
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