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move into the single possible position in the desire of man (Irigaray 102)
Irigaray's contention can clarify Mrs. Brown's discontent when she understands that her little girls are developing and charming in guys' considerations. She is envious of Linda, her little girl, when she came ground floor just with a bra and jeans. She pulled in her mom's extravagant boy's, (Arthur's) consideration and Mrs. brown felt aggravated and “looked suddenly older, rat-like, as her eyes darted between Arthur and the girl” (Barker 8). The relationship between them is broken and quelled on the grounds that they have gotten to be opponents under patriarchal look. Mrs. brown began to see her girls not as her little girls any longer but rather as lady. Adrienne Rich,
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brown relationship with her girl, Kelly, has turned out to be more complicated and separated after her assault. Kelly is assaulted while she is meandering alone in the boulevards, something she frequently does in light of the fact that home is not the wellspring of wellbeing or solace for her. She invests the vast majority of her energy unknowingly hunting down anything that she can to fill the void in her life and after that she sees the man. She relates the man with her truant father and she is attracted to him on the grounds that “other people-her mother, Linda, the teachers at school-merely glanced at her and then with indifference or haste, passed on. But this man stared at her as if every pore in her skin mattered” (Barker 14-16). She need a sort of familial and enthusiastic connection and can't leave The Man. The Man's monetary foundation is not unequivocally described but rather as comprehended from his sparkly dark shoes and coat and the tone of his voice he appears to originate from a wealthier foundation. The Man's social class and the way that assault happens in a territory off a locked, forsook plant which once stood amazingly, symbolizes the misuse and, abuse of working-classes by higher classes who took what they needed from the neighborhood individuals and afterward left, leaving the group deceived unprotected and

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