Women sometimes feel compelled to put up with unwanted male attention. Women have no control over what men say and do. There is nothing women can do to stop men form saying or doing what they want unless women stay away from men altogether. Men will often make comments or violate a woman’s freedom regardless of weather the women are enjoying the attention or not. In the short story “A Woman On a Roof,” a woman experiences some unwanted male attention while she is sunbathing on her rooftop. Despite her attempts to ward the men off by acting indifferent and seemingly aggravated, they still continue to bother her (735). The woman on the roof has little control over this situation, and thus must ignore the men and put up with their impulsive lack of maturity.
The woman on the roof experiences the impulsive immaturity of three men working on an adjacent rooftop about “fifty yards away” (734). These men are a good example of how men act the way they want towards women regardless of how their immature behavior is affecting the woman. The three men in this story took the opportunity to sneak a peak of a woman laying practically half-naked on a roofto
In short, women particularly the woman on the roof, have no control at all whatsoever over the actions of men. Despite her many attempts to drive the men away, they seem to have done the opposite. This displays the level of maturity the men have. Perhaps a more mature, respectable man would have quit harassing the woman after his first attempt to get the woman’s attention. Either way the woman had no choice but to put up with their lack of maturity and hard headedness.
Men take things too far. What else is a woman supposed to do after she has tried so hard to ward these men off? She really has no control over the situation. Perhaps the only control she actually has is to just stop sunbathing and go inside. A woman shouldn’t have to stop what she is doing because a few immature, dense men can’t seem to control themselves. Tom exhibits how far a man can go when he visits her on the rooftop after work, intending to converse with her. Tom’s persistent behavior forces the woman to ignore him because he does not seem to understand that his presence is not welcome. She eventually gets fed up with his presence and tells him to leave. Even after tell
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