Gaudet
- Created by: emilybachee
- Created on: 29-03-14 18:12
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- Gaudet
- Patriarchal world of 1828 Louisiana
- Men free to exploit and abuse women
- Women property of men
- Position of women in society
- Society's views and expectations
- dumbfounded
- expression
- clueless
- expression
- Plantation owner
- husband
- simile- 'my husband roared over me like a locomotive'
- Insensitive
- No effection
- Unstoppable
- 'I didn't find him particularly attractive
- expressive utterance
- simile- 'my husband roared over me like a locomotive'
- ' and I was right to be afraid. In town he was unsure of himself, but in his own home he was a tyrant'
- abstract noun 'tyrant'
- connotation
- individual sadist
- vulnerable
- subtext to violence
- Hints at unhappiness
- possibly too embarrassed to confess totally
- abstract noun 'tyrant'
- 'the warmth from every exchange'
- no warmth
- cold hearted
- sucks the life out
- metaphorical triadic listing
- 'nature of the bargain'
- abstract noun
- financial value
- money theme
- abstract noun
- 'this is my husband'
- echo of first page
- disbelief
- 'he rarely laughed
- boring
- delightful party contrasts with terrible husband
- Page 9
- 'will you sit down?'
- instructional utterance
- rhetorical question
- Manon surprised by civil tone
- usually rude?
- no manners- no please, no choice
- 'will you sit down?'
- Page 11
- 'his eyes swept over my figure in that rapacious way I find so unsettling'
- rapacious- adjective
- repelled by his sexual interest
- doesnt feel attracted to him
- belongs to him- he can do what he likes with her
- 'his eyes swept over my figure in that rapacious way I find so unsettling'
- Page 10
- 'well, she'll just have to be afraid'
- inconsiderate of servants' feelings
- doesnt see them as people
- have no feelings
- only uses pronoun
- 'well, she'll just have to be afraid'
- page 54-58
- 'he was a flawless manager, far more intelligent and efficient than my father
- sarcasm
- contrasts Gaudet with father
- mocks arrogance
- how Gaudet sees himself
- 'come to my office when you have finished eating
- deliberately formal
- bossy
- 'he was a flawless manager, far more intelligent and efficient than my father
- page 59-61
- recounts sexual history
- unwilling to have his children
- 'ive not much interest in making love to a corpse'
- she doesn't move
- no affection
- not performing 'wifely duty'
- bitter
- Untitled
- recounts sexual history
- Patriarchal world of 1828 Louisiana
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