Gryphon: Teacher and Baxter

Gryphon is a short story almost women. Author showed twain types of women. The first type represented by the instructor, and the min type represented by the narrators beget. The teacher represents women who ar free and not restricted by family. She was not married, she traveled in order to explore the man, and she was well educated, while narrators arrest was a typically housewife dependent on her husband and foreordained to full- time mothering at home ( flush, 1996) In the first paragraph is presented look protrude on Ferenczi a substitute teacher.Unlike other boring normal substitute teachers, who provided easeful family line day, and nervously covered material (Baxter, p. 15)into the divide came woman they had never seen. She was no special age but her case had two prominent lines, go vertically from the sides of her mouth to her chin. I knew where I had seen those lines before Pinocchio. They were mari peerlesstte lines (Baxter, 2010). As she walks to the blackbo ard, picking up pieces of white and green chalk, she draws a large oak tree on the left side of the blackboard saying the class needs this tree in it. Then she told the class about her imperial Hungarian ancestor.She was proud of her mother being a famous pianist who succeeded her first concert in London for ? crowned heads. The substitute teachers behavior and personality surprised her students because she was strange. She was different from their mothers, which were uneducated housewives session silently at the back of the room, doing her knitting. (Baxter, 2010) Narrators mother compositors case and hairstyle always reminded other people of Betty Crocker, whose picture was framed inside a gigantic spoon on the side of the Bisquick box (Baxter, 2010). For him his mother face just looked white (Baxter, 2010).She always had chores to do she was only interested in cleaning and cooking. She did not participate in the life of her son, she really did not talk to him, she just comma nd. They only have time for talking when the mother gets home (Baxter, 2010). Everything has to be prepared before the Lords coming home. For her the most authorized thing was to clean up before dinner (Baxter, 2010). The adamant is one symbol that helps to convey this theme. According to drop Ferenczi diamond s are magic and this is why women wear them on their fingers, as a marker of the magic womanhood (Baxter, 2010).Every young girl dreams of a fairy-tale prince and to live jubilantly ever after. In the consciousness of young women is a deeply root compulsion to marriage. Women have married because it was necessary, in order to survive economically, in order to have children who would not suffer economic deprivation or social ostracism. (Rich, 1996) In a really life it turns out that marriage is a trap. Men manifest a male provide and treat the institution of marriage and motherhood as unpaid drudgery (Rich, 1996). They confine women physically and prevent their movement (Rich, 1996).Also narrators mother was in this kind of trap. She touched the back of her hand to my forehead and I felt her diamond ring against my skin (Baxter, 2010). The diamond in the world was cursed and had killed everyone who owned it, and that by trick of fate it was called the Hope diamond (Baxter, 2010). The same as marriage could kill womens creativeness and their independence. description of male pursuits as more valuable than female within any culture, so that cultural values become the embodiment of male subjectivity restriction of female self- fulfillment to marriage and motherhood. Rich, 1996) In an move to show the restriction of female self- fulfillment to marriage and motherhood (Rich, 1996) Miss Ferenczi predicted the future of their students using a tarot. Predictions are shown to be different for girls and boys. In the girls future she did not see higher grooming but she saw an early marriage, umpteen children and tasks of housewife life, while in boys future travel, late marriage and maybe a good life (Baxter, 2010). It is a proof that the situation of women is the same for many generations regardless of time, place and culture. In the short story Gryphon were shown two women and two styles of life.A common part for these two women is just sex. The substitute teacher was as the fabulous beast gryphon with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion (Baxter, 2010) meanwhile a narrators mother was like a most women, who need men as social and economic protectors. Work Cited Charles Baxter. Gryphon. Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandel (7th Edition). Boston Wadsworth, 2010. 242-253. Print. Adriane Rich Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. Feminism and Sexuality. Jackson E. Scott (1996).