In The Pearl, Juana, Kino’s wife, faces social oppression. Firstly, because Juana is a woman and secondly because she is the wife of a fisherman, a job of low status. As a woman, her role in society is to support her husband, cook, clean and raise their children. In Kino’s family in many circumstances he shows Juana he is superior. When he punches her and kicks her in the side he abuses her physically and mentally but she accepts because he is a man. Direct evidence from the book says “Juana dragged herself up from the rocks on the edge of the water. Her face was a dull pain and her side ached. She steadied herself on her knees for a while and her wet skirt clung to her. There was no anger in her for Kino. “He had said, "I am a man," and
