ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lana Turner, Mavis Gallant, Jean Harlow
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Heartbreak from the inability to bridge differences between cultures, generations, and gender. Ms thompson, as a woman and a human being, has no sympathy whatsoever about what happened. Mt also says don"t say the name, don"t say it and stuff but she pushes jeannie at the same time and at the end suggests names. Pg 130 introduction she did her nails after she got raped, but she just wants to look pretty. Jean harlow was known as a sex symbol, but so is jeannie because of how she dresses and how pretty she is and is skinny. Jean hawlow dies but jeannie also does because she dies inside bc of the rape. Jeannie is very objectified: arms over her head, heels touching the table, nail polish on her flat stomach, skinny legs, shorts and husband"s shirt. Cutex nail polish = cute + sex: contradiction and tension in which jeannie has to work at.
