Nectar In A Sieve

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 The book Nectar in a Sieve talks about three main themes one of which being Women’s
roles.(TS) The things that Rukmani care for in this book seem to be nothing but family and her
husband. “While the sun shines on you and the fields are green and beautiful to the eye, and your
husband sees beauty in you, which no one has seen before, and you have a good store of grain
stored away for hard times, and a roof over you and a sweet stirring in your body, what more can
a woman ask for?”(CD) As for the question “what more could a woman ask for?”, how about a
life outside your work and family?(CM) Rukmani (in this sentence) has mentioned everything
that belongs to her husband, and her love for her husband...and that’s it.(CM) As for me as a
reader, it was found pathetic.(CM) Also, when Kunthi, Ruknmani’s neighbor comes into her
home demanding rice, she becomes the personification of greed and jealousy quicker than most
can say the author’s name.(CD) “I will have the rice now or your husband shall hear that his wife
is not as virtuous as he believes-or hears.”(CD) This creates yet another stereotype that women a
sniveling creatures looking to exact revenge like a pack of hungry wolves.(CM) Just once, let’s
see a man have that pinned on his back, just once.(CM) It takes away from the sanctity of women
even though some women these days (mostly teenage girls) act.(CM) Finally, it uses the action of
prostitution that Irawaddy takes and puts it up on a mantle with the label, “a solution to your
problem.” In the book, Ira, being baron and losing her husband, decides that to gain money to
feed her baby and family, she will become a prostitute.(CD) Honey, I hate to brake it to you, but
sleeping around never helped anyone’s problems.(CM) Using your sexuality to gain profit isn’t a
very respectable action.(CM) Even though it probably is a easy way to gain money with her
beauty and all, the reade...