Lurie only pays attention to women he finds attractive, and finds no value in women he does not. Lurie objectifies women countless times throughout the novel, such as when he says to Melanie Isaacs, “’Because a women’s beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it” (16). Lurie’s belief that a beautiful woman must sleep with a man because it is her obligation shows his inability to recognize that women are more than objects to use and dispose of. Lurie’s use of the phrase, “she brings into the world” further reflects his attitude toward women, by suggesting with this choice of words that women are obligated to serve men from the time they are
Lurie only pays attention to women he finds attractive, and finds no value in women he does not. Lurie objectifies women countless times throughout the novel, such as when he says to Melanie Isaacs, “’Because a women’s beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it” (16). Lurie’s belief that a beautiful woman must sleep with a man because it is her obligation shows his inability to recognize that women are more than objects to use and dispose of. Lurie’s use of the phrase, “she brings into the world” further reflects his attitude toward women, by suggesting with this choice of words that women are obligated to serve men from the time they are