As a child parents teaches their children to be doctors, athletes, and lawyers. Television teaches little girls to be princess, and that beauty is important. Well in the short story, “The Waitress” by Robert Coover is a waitress, who is agitated by the way men looked at her in an unpleasant way. This waitress is harsh, hostile, and believes she can do things on her own. The waitress was so angry with the way men looked and spoke to her that she made a wish. She wished for people to not be able to look at her. As she walked by individuals, their heads immediately turn away. The author is showing the waitress as being harsh when he wrote, “Sometimes they make little yipping sounds, which adds to her amusement.” Society would typically see ladies
