Blog Post # 5 Alisia

2. A lot of focus on the girls in the store: take on the veil of a feminist critic and analyze any of the models: the biological, cultural, and linguistic models of feminist criticism I introduced you to briefly in class.  This is just dipping a toe in – play with it and see what you come up with. Try to come up with a number of ideas given the three possibilities here.

Sammy focuses on the three girls in bathing suits the whole time they are in the store. He notices a lot of little details about the girls as they go around the store. He notices what kinds of suits they have on and what they look like. It is also brought up that normally people would put on some piece of clothing before going into a store. The other people in the store, like the woman he is ringing up, are also physically described. He also notices the way the “Queen” walks, like she doesn’t care what other people think of her. All the other women in the store are also described a little. The other women aren’t even called women, they are sheep or houseslaves. I think that it is pretty important that the girls are described in this way because it shows more about who Sammy is and who he wants to be.

This was written in a time where it wasn’t appropriate to wear such little clothing in a public place. You could tell how the other people in the store felt about the way they were dressed by the looks they were giving them. You could also tell because they were surprised and had to double check to make sure that they weren’t seeing things.