(Gilmore 285) Gilmore's term may be apply to Adrienne Rich's essay "Women and Honor: Some notes on Lying" because it contains similar ideas about how women are expected to behave according to the society they live in. ... "Lorenzo stayed indoors with his widowed mother, studying, reading books...he contributed nothing to his family's impoverished larder...Lorenzo made no visible efforts to enter the masculine world..."(Gilmore 274) In the case of Alfredo he was judged on the fact that he would rather stay home and help his wife in the kitchen, instead of spending all his...

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