Sexual Arousal in Men: Patty’s Tackle with Sexual Harassment in Lynne Barrett’s “Inventory” Thesis: The scene of “Inventory” in which Patty was counting the stock depicts her encounter with sexual harassment as the two men were considering her as a sexual object. The description of the panties that the appliance manager and the delivery guy used to guess Patty’s age show the kind of mindset they have for women. As they were making Patty feel harassed by deciding about the stuff of panties, the delivery guy gave a description “The skinny ones wear little nylon bikinis. Maybe with ‘Tuesday’ embroidered on them.” The
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She is well aware that the two men are looking at here, even though after feeling being offended she had a contrast in her behaviour and ignored the appliance manager and the delivery guy. Patty’s relaxing behaviour suggests that it is the iron mesh deck that made her feel comfortable as it turned out to be a curtain in the two men’s view. However Patty ignored the two men but they couldn’t resist themselves and came up with a comment “This one’s a kid though. What are you honey, seventeen?. A baby. White cotton spankies.” The symbol of honey in their comment suggest that they are trying to force Patty to talk to them by being nice to her and the description of “white cotton spankies” depicts that the two men compare Patty’s age with the panties because they consider that cotton panties are worn by skinny and teenage girls. Just as Patty was trying to ignore the two men, their conversation was becoming more intense. Although the two men were unstoppable but Patty finished her …show more content…
Rather than being stressed from the harassment she faced, she overtook it with a positive attitude. The fact that she didn’t broke was her parents, she had a believe if they would get to know what happens at her workplace ”my father would holler, my mother would cry.” this reflects the situation that Patty tackled would make her family depressed and concerned about their daughter’s safety at her work. Moreover, the training Patty got from Mrs. Grissing made her stronger. Mrs. Grissing trained Patty in a way that was required for their workplace as they have to wear skirts at work and climb up the “God’s little acres” for counting the sown dead stuff from the iron mesh deck that was turning into crap which probably would never be sold and the workers have to count it unnecessarily to keep track of the inventory. While training Patty, Mrs. Grissing feels that “And when you’ve got your fanny up in the air crawling into those bin, of course they’ll peek. Big deal” here from fanny Mrs. Grissing symbolizes the private body parts of a woman that could probably be visible while working up with the inventory on the iron mesh deck and “those bins” men such as appliance manager and the delivery guy who posses dirty minds and who don’t have respect for women and consider them as just objects to fulfill sexual desire. Men like them would obviously peek up
She is well aware that the two men are looking at here, even though after feeling being offended she had a contrast in her behaviour and ignored the appliance manager and the delivery guy. Patty’s relaxing behaviour suggests that it is the iron mesh deck that made her feel comfortable as it turned out to be a curtain in the two men’s view. However Patty ignored the two men but they couldn’t resist themselves and came up with a comment “This one’s a kid though. What are you honey, seventeen?. A baby. White cotton spankies.” The symbol of honey in their comment suggest that they are trying to force Patty to talk to them by being nice to her and the description of “white cotton spankies” depicts that the two men compare Patty’s age with the panties because they consider that cotton panties are worn by skinny and teenage girls. Just as Patty was trying to ignore the two men, their conversation was becoming more intense. Although the two men were unstoppable but Patty finished her …show more content…
Rather than being stressed from the harassment she faced, she overtook it with a positive attitude. The fact that she didn’t broke was her parents, she had a believe if they would get to know what happens at her workplace ”my father would holler, my mother would cry.” this reflects the situation that Patty tackled would make her family depressed and concerned about their daughter’s safety at her work. Moreover, the training Patty got from Mrs. Grissing made her stronger. Mrs. Grissing trained Patty in a way that was required for their workplace as they have to wear skirts at work and climb up the “God’s little acres” for counting the sown dead stuff from the iron mesh deck that was turning into crap which probably would never be sold and the workers have to count it unnecessarily to keep track of the inventory. While training Patty, Mrs. Grissing feels that “And when you’ve got your fanny up in the air crawling into those bin, of course they’ll peek. Big deal” here from fanny Mrs. Grissing symbolizes the private body parts of a woman that could probably be visible while working up with the inventory on the iron mesh deck and “those bins” men such as appliance manager and the delivery guy who posses dirty minds and who don’t have respect for women and consider them as just objects to fulfill sexual desire. Men like them would obviously peek up