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Allegory And Ambiguity In Katharine Brush's The Birthday Party

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In the story, “The Birthday Party” by Katharine Brush uses allegory and ambiguity to demonstrate the woman’s role in the 1940’s. The allegory that Brush uses with the female character shows that women are supposed to obey their husband’s orders and have no right to talk back.

The ambiguity in demonstrated in the phrase, “…the wife beamed with shy pride…” can be justified as the woman’s uncertainty of either how her husband was going to react, or how well was her surprised planned. The feeling of being timid and unable to predict a person’s reaction is bad towards everyone, especially, women in the 1940’s. Women were meant to please and satisfy a man’s needs. Women were constantly screamed at, were made of little or no importance, and always

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