hindered by anything and that whatever a woman wants, she will get, no matter how much a man might try to prevent it.(11)" It is easy to see that she is rebelling in her own way against the rules set forth by the jinnee and all of mankind. She has a deep hatred towards men, and she makes herself feel better by dominating strange men and threatening them with the loss of their lives. Although she cannot actually kill them her captor the jinnee, will without a second thought. Though she is dominated by the jinnee, she has a power over the men she finds. This evens out the balance of power a little between the jinnee and the maiden. Women are made out to be awful, horrible creatures from which men should take cover. In Arabian Nights there are many passages in which women are negatively portrayed. For example, "This only proves that all women will make cuckolds out of their husbands when given the chanceNo man in this world is safe from the malice of women! (6)" This is only one of many blatant sexist remarks in this text. Grossman takes the stance in her article, "but my focus is not on the solipsistic narrator- it is on narration as a social act undertaken in a specified context of events.(113)" To me this means that she is focusing on what character is doing the narration in the context of each scene. Also, not looking at the narrator as a separate character, but as an intrinsic part of the story. I tend to look at the narrator of the story as a total and separate part of the story. It was interesting to look at the story through her point of view. She also tends to focus on the cycle of reciprocal deceit. I never really looked at the women in these stories as trying to get some of their power back because they are so oppressed by their men. They were portrayed as these evil, backstabbing women, and that is how I saw them. Grossman looks at their evil behaviors and turns it around so that you can see it's the man's fault because he did ...
