In the reading we see an older Eastern women’s thoughts and a recap of her experience in a Western department store. In her recap of her experience in the American department store she explains to us, as the reader how she felt being in the shoes of a modern, adult American woman. Being told by a rude sales lady that the store doesn’t carry your size, and you are too big. The author of this story, Mernissi, was shocked by this scenario, because she as a Eastern woman, from out of country, was accustomed to the “veil” of women in her country being confined by space. The societal normal for her, was being accused from a young age, that she, as a woman, was not to be in the same space as a man, young ladies, and young girls alike are kept cooped
