not allow the woman's self to be made clear and present. I find Grossman's argument that women are portrayed as evil to be valid, and it is actually a result of the men's side of things to be very convincing. When you look back to the text, most of the women that are perceived as being bad, all come from uneven power situations. One situation is the Kings and their wives. Every time that the Kings leave the castle, their wives have affairs with black slaves. They do this in spite of the Kings. The women find the dirtiest, blackest, most disgusting and unattractive slaves that they can find and engage in intercourse with them all night long. Their husbands aren't supposed to find out about this, and that gives the women a chance to feel like they have a little bit of power in the relationship. However, when the Kings do find out, the penalty is death for both their wives and the slaves and concubines that were present. This of course turned the Kings against all women, which in turn caused them to take and kill all the virgins in the area. Until they meet Scheherazade, the vizier's daughter believes she can change the King's ways. She succeeds in her desire to conquer the King, which shows that you can even the power in what is an uneven situation. Although this seems like something that would only have happened in stories, it is something that we see in everyday modern life. This is the reason that I agree with Grossman's view on this topic. She doesn't make any points that I disagree with in her article. I think that if Grossman were critiquing a piece of writing to find if it was good or not there would be some certain things that she looks for. One thing would be a strong voice throughout the article that was backed up by many citings from different readings. She would look for citings from a wide variety of works that are related to the topic. To back this up, I think that Grossman would also expect you to be well versed in terms o...
