Bean Grower Analysis

Between, the times of feeling Independent and strong head each female character prioritizes their sexual life. For example in “Bean Grower” the character begins to feel her younger sexual life again “A laugh-trill pealed out from the radio: Dr. Ruth with her stupid Kissinger accent giving advice on sex. Everywhere but New England, the world went on with its trivial, stupid business. Sex! Sex! Sex! What was so hard about it! Wilson folded his newspaper. “What say we do it?” “Where?” “Here,” he said, pointing to the rug in front of the stove. “We aren’t got nothing better to do” (52-53) Fabienne begins to start feeling the heat between her and the young fellow Wilson. She begins her sexual life with him and continues to have sexual action. “Pushing open the bathroom door, she inhaled in the steam. Water pelted the plastic curtain. She undid a barrette, …show more content…
“Please,” she said. He paused a minute, than she slapped him on the butt. “Ow!” (64). In “Jungle man” Lorrie experiences an almost rape scene. “What is this?” “He says, rubbing his greasy finger over a red swelling”. “Get your goddamn hands off me.” “A beautiful girl like you should not be alone in the forest.” “Holding her arm with one hand, he reaches the other to her chin. His stomachs bump against her camera. His acrid breath falls hot on her cheek. Disgust emboldens her. She inhales and splits into his face. He recoils. She snaps her arm away, seizes her camera, and rams the telescopic lens between his eyes” (82). Although this sexual act did not happen, the guy was trying to have sexual things with her. If it was not for her fight against him Lorrie would have been raped. One character enjoys the sexual appearance and act with the other mate, but the other character had to fight the guy off of her. In both stories each female had kept a strong independent guard up, and their sexual wellbeing close. However each character was forced to be rescue by the opposite