In the story “IND AFF” the narrator is a smitten young woman in her early twenties who is in a relationship with her married history professor. The narrator is representing women in the 1980’s and their societal traditions of this time. For example, in the 1980’s women were very much dependent on men, because humanity was not familiar with the idea of women in the workforce or undertaking acts outside of housework and caretaking. Many women continued this way of living for it was what was known, deciding it to be best not to go against the status quo. Alternatively, in the narrative “Geese” the storyteller is a young woman who moves from Baltimore to Japan in “hopes of making a pile of money, stocking it away, then living somewhere cheap and
