Representative of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Bud's girlfriend curiously picks a shiny red apple to give to him. ... Instead of finding solace in their prefabricated and traditional restraints, women discovered their right to equality and the freedom of discovery that it entailed. ...
Fascinated with their personal discoveries, both woman are filled with joy and thoughts of freedom - and to see this fulfilled, it would come when their husbands were gone for good. ... We see now how much the women disliked the way that their life is like now (at the beginning); to full knowledge of their wish of freedom, and learn that there unexpected happiness does not last for long. ...
How humiliating is this discovery! ... A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved"" (Austen23). ...
