Blog #4

5. Re-examine character

I wrote about Sylvia and I think Sylvia is still looked at as a beauty icon in everyone’s eyes. Mary, Buds wife said, “Some women are just born with looks. My husband talks about her all the time”(p.185). Sylvia still dresses up every day and cooks very little but she start to explain how she is so bored at home that she starts to go out more and more and Cloyde starts to ask Sonny all the time where his mother his and he shows frustrastion because she is always gone. I can see Sylvia starting to hate where she is at but maybe feels like it is a good place for Sonny, maybe she feels like by her staying with Cloyde she is providing better for her son because her son is learning responsibility because Clyde gives him chores to do around the complex, and she has provided him with a man in his life. Maybe in Sylvia’s eyes she is staying with Cloyde even though she is very unhappy because she is not emotionally in his life and she has replaced herself by putting Clyde in Sonny’s life, even though Sonny expresses Cloyde as, “The Cloyde.”

6. Examine a female from a feminist perspective: Cindy

Cindy seems to be a very lonely young girl who is just crying out for any attention. Cindy is home all day and shows signs of depression by smoking weed all day and drinking wine or wine coolers and seduces a fifteen year old boy into have sex with her. Cindy begs Sonny to hang out with her and says she is unhappy with her life and mentions she is not in love with her husband. She tells Sonny how her husband  works all day and then goes out with his friends and does who know what! Sonny also mentions how she is always coming out of her apartment practically naked (p.195).  From a feminist point of view, that is a young girl crying out for affection and any type of attention. Cindy probably stays in her situation because she obviously married at a young age and did not finish school. She has become dependent on her husband and has nowhere else to go, no money, no car, she is completely stuck in the apartment with nothing to do, it seems like no one in the complex ever notice her but Sonny. Because she lacks the education and dependency it seems the only way she knows how to communicate with a male is by having sex, using her body in hopes of receiving a companionship and someone to love her. It is like when you hear about young girls who have baby’s at a young age so someone will love them back. It is sad but with the lack of knowledge and their upbringing, this seems to be the only alternative they know.