In addition, if we went back to the nineteenth century American life, we can see these type of friendships were not happening more among women as we would expect; but was more important for males to engage in these friendships with another male that started from their youth. These friendships were the most fulfilling friendships in a man’s life as it led them to manhood. In all honesty, male friendships were nobler than conjugal love with a woman. Women were basically as an object to have children, take care of things around the house; when a married male did have sex with a woman, it was not for enjoyment, …show more content…
One of the letters seemed that Jeff possibly was sexually aroused for Jim saying, how his inclination to have the delight of poking and punching Jims’ long fleshen pole and how much of a joy it was to be lucky enough to touch his fleshen. In the American South of the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century were for privileged, young, white males. In this sense, we can see that Jim and Jeff were able to be sexual with each other, and no one was going to be able to do anything to them because of their high position. At the end of the story we see that power has created the