Her extreme desperation and aggravation is played out in a monologue she delivers during the play:.
When I gave birth I remember so clearlyshe came out and clambered right onto my breast and tried to eat me, she was so hungry, so hungry it terrified me – her hunger. And I thought: is that the first emotion? Hunger? And not hunger for food but wanting to eat other people? Specifically one's mother? And then I thought – isn't it strange, isn't it strange about Jesus? That is to say, about Jesus being a man? For it is women who are eaten – who turn their bodies into food – I gave up my blood – there was so much blood – and I gave up my body – but I couldn't feed her, could not turn my body into food, and she was so hungry. I suppose that makes me an inferior kind of woman and a very inferior kind of Jesus. (Ruhl).
Mrs. Givings goes so far as to question why women are the chosen gender for the torture of giving birth and providing food for the child, perhaps even suggesting that women have to endure worse than what Jesus had to go through. However, most of this monologue most likely stems from her own insecurities – she feels that she is unable to come through as a decent mother and her husband is constantly putting the wall of the operation room between their relationship, leaving her feeling rejected and alone. In this example, Ruhl shows her views towards the typical relationship of a man and a wife, through the frustration in Catherine's eyes. In the confusion of why a woman must continue to be seen as the primary caregiver for a child, we might ask, "but why is it always the woman who has to tend and provide love while the man acts as the breadwinner?" As much as we might like to think that these views have changed, Ruhl further the Woman Question by forcing us to question whether these ideals have truly changed since the roles of the Old Order.
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