While Stanley presents the stronger trait of male aggression through violent language and acts, young Tom diminishes her validity as an independent being by objectifying her sexually, dreaming, "she [has] been tender with him" (540). The young worker imagines how they snuggle together at night and "he [can] feel the bond between the woman and himself" (542) that exists only in his objectified version of her as a sex object not a real person. ... He climbs over to the woman's roof, dreaming she will respond to him with tenderness, but instead she rejects and ignores him. ...

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Trefry recounts of his attempts that "she disarms me with that modesty and weeping, so tender and so moving that I retire, and thank my stars she overcame me " (33). ... At night, "Her part was to watch and hold him in her arms, for fear of her countrymen, and wake him on occasions to consult his safety " (2481). ...

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