aw her in the girl she would have liked to be, a girl who was both totally immersed in and yet completely above the underworld of bar violence and sex,” (Ngugi, page 72). In writing this paper I have learned a lot about myself. My beliefs and my approach to life were molded in the creation of this paper. I hate to admit that my view of the world was that naive. I would have been content to think that this power struggle didn’t exist but in the different cultures that we have read about so far. As I engaged my own thought processes, I realized that this was not just in other parts of the world. I also stated earlier that this was more commonplace in the era of our grandparents. Not so. This power struggle occurs in all walks of life. In all social classes today there is some sort of struggle for power. In the upper class, battles ensue mostly over the Social/Political powers. They fight for power in the work place and within the community. In the middle class, the forces of the Domestic powers are present. Here husbands and wives fight to be the breadwinner of the family. Personal power is overwhelming in the lower classes. Living in the ghetto, life is about fighting to make yourself a better person. This is not to say that in each of the classes all three battles arise. We all go to battle for Domestic, Social/Political and Personal power everyday. True, most of us do not have to battle like the characters in the stories, but we still dig in and do battle for what we believe in. The outcome, sad to say, do still depend on what sex we are. ...
