Jiles argues that societal pressures have forced women into a subservient role in comparison to men through contrasting the use of water between the men and women and a metaphor explicating the intangible marking that shoves females into a life of servitude. While men are free to enjoy them, women are stripped of such freedom and expected to complete household chores. As the women are forced to wash the dishes, the men are free to play with the hose; while the medium of water is the same, Jiles contrasts the purpose of their actions as a means to explicate that women are forced to assume roles of responsibilities, allowing men to be free from extraneous tasks. This contrast exemplifies Jiles’ argument due to it emphasizing that women are expected to complete house hold chores, so men are allowed to enjoy themselves without concern with such chores. Jiles further elaborates the idea of societal pressures being at fault to this yoke placed upon women, through the contrasting image of Aunt Hetty and the young voice of the narrator. Jiles explicates the societal pressures that women endure through Aunt Hetty explaining “that’s [just] the way it is” as the …show more content…
Jiles portrays Aunt Hetty as “the shriveled-up one” who has come to accept that the burden that women are placed beneath the feet of men, while contrasting the narrator, who has just coming to question why women are conscripted to the household tasks that could be easily shared between both genders. By contrasting