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The Rajahs Of The Western Worl - Online Term Paper

The Rajahs Of The Western Worl

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My mother, who grew up in Sri Lanka, was shocked to hear the way I dealt with my boyfriend on the telephone. She proceeded to give me a talk on how a woman should achieve what she wants through womanly means and that it is imperative for every relationship that the stereotypical gender roles are at least superficially preserved. Indeed, she told me that this was the only way a relationship could survive. This fluttering around men is something every female does starting with the father and the brothers and later the husband - in Sri Lanka, at least twenty years ago, every man is a rajah, a prince, in his house. Having lived in Austria I would have said this is not the case here, however, ...

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themselves as the successful breadwinners it is their wives who make ends meet - yet all is done so that Hialmar and Willy can believe and live in their dreams: they are the mollified husbands.
Although Hialmar was spoilt by his aunts who took care of him, it seems that both he and Willy got used to being mollified by their wives. The personality of Gina and Linda are much the same. They both love their husbands and try to manage their affairs so that they do not worry the men. Gina and Linda both do the accounts in the house remembering payments and loans and try to make the money they have last for as long as possible, even if this means denying themselves something; as Hedvig says to her mother when they are talking about saving “but then you and I didn't need anything hot for dinner as father was out”. Of the two wives, Gina has to do more as Hialmar does not even work himself but lets Gina or Hedvig ‘help him’ while he works on his invention.
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something wrong. When Willy complains he could not drive properly Linda quickly suggests “maybe it was the steering again” and after Willy deters and repeats that it was his fault she still thinks “maybe it’s your glasses. You never went for your new glasses”.

Thus Hialmar and Willy never have to face reality and are constantly supported physically and emotionally. It is not as though Gina and Linda are submissive, in fact they treat Hialmar and Willy like children. Gina asks her daughter if she is glad when she has good news to tell her father when he comes home and she replies “yes; for then we have a pleasanter evening” and Gina realises that ...

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Added: 6/9/2007 12:34:10 AM
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