Although the type of oppression that occurs in “Rotten Fruit” appears to be more systematic, the manner in which the employers of the Warehouse use the fruit packers is not much different than the way that the doctor and his son use the maiden aunt as well as her niece in the short story, “The Youngest Doll”. In Rosario Ferré’s short story, “The Youngest Doll”, the aunt and her youngest niece are exploited, degraded, as well as objectified, due to their relationships with men. However, the men are only introduced into the lives of the two women, after a river prawn bites the maiden aunt. This causes the aunt to believe that her beauty has been compromised and so she chooses to live a life of seclusion as depicted when the narrator states, “She
