A Woman on a Roof 英语论文.doc

“A Woman on a Roof” is not just about the conflict between both genders, but the war of class differences concerned we can learn from it. The heroine sunbathing and the heroes of three work men in different ages share the same hot sun but live the totally distinguished life. And the people in lower status also show their desires in spite of the prejudice from the upper class. My comment is focus on the class differences representing as follows. What are the descriptions of the class differences in the story? One sentence on the beginning of the story: Then they saw her, between chimneys, about fifty yards away. The distance of “fifty yards” reflects that one class leaves alone another class in life. The life the woman spends was in an idle way lying in the sun for a healthy color of skin while the three working men have to replace gutters on a roof in the sun for supporting their lives. So the sun is helpful to the former class, but cruel to the later class. How to represent the collision between the two classes? All three men desire to get the sunbather’s attention as they need a diversion from the relentless heat. But no matter how hard they try including whistling, yelling, waving to the woman on a rooftop nearby, the woman keeps paying no mind to them. “The woman stayed on her blanket, turning herself over and over.” “She ignored them, no matter what they did” They become “taunted” by this woman’s indifference towards them. The nonverbal isolation and indignation of the woman against the men’s lewd behavior provoke the three man to hatred her including Tom in the end. “They were all angry because of her utter indifference to the three men watching her.” The climax of the collision is the woman’s rejection against the Tom’s love for her. Tom, who has been fantasizing about the woman, convinced that he has acted to protect her from Stanley, sneaks over to see her, and is rebuffed. She tells him to go away and “in a low reasonable voice, where anger was kept in c