1. Male dominance and female complicity in Frau Brechenmacher
The Frau calls him "The Father", which at once distances him from being within the family but instead held above it and above the wife. ... This image is reminiscent of a male bird blowing out his chest in a mating call, perhaps a comment on the overblown, inflated ego of Herr Brechenmacher. ... This interlocks with the ideas generally held by men at the turn of the century of therapeutic rape; that is, women were not supposed to desire men, (the bride, Theresa, is held up as a bad example because she dared give herself to a man and has a dirty-looking child at her wedding as a reminder of h...
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