Here Weber shows that through wealth (and therefore higher paid occupation - something I will come to later in my essay) all men have a right to the public access of transport but all women however do not. .
When comparing a scene (in which the setting is transport) which is important to a main narrative line in The Wild Party similarities arise in the patriarchal control over public space. In a scene at the beginning of the film, Stella regales to her girlfriends what happened to her whilst travelling back to University on the train. She explains that in the middle of the night she got up to get a drink of water, cold and tired she returns but to the wrong compartment. She suggests to Helen (her good friend who she is sharing a bunk with) that they sleep spoon fashion, only to be shocked to hear a male voice ask, "Who invited you in?"(Mayne 132). Here Arzner is setting up the important narrative line of the heterosexual relationship between Professor Gil and Stella. At the same time Arzner depicts something else, the idea of the new women and her access to public space. Stella (the new women) is traveling on the train quite independently with her friend, but upsets this public space by getting into trouble, emphasizing a patriarchal control. Accidentally she climbs into the wrong space, Gils bed, his reaction is to hush the panicked Stella by explaining "Go quietly so as to not wreck your reputation, or myn" automatically Stella is turned into a sexual object, one that could ruin everything, by creating chaos in a public space. It is not Stella's fault she accidentally returned to the wrong compartment but the audience will automatically criminalise her as the "wild girl" up to mischief on the train, when it was really Gils sexual objectification of her that created any problem at all. .
In The Blot gender divides the public space of employment with males being represented within a professional sphere and female within a homemaking sphere emphasizing a patriarchal control over public space.
Ken Kesey, a writer and cultural hero of the psychic frontier, is best known as the author of the widely read novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His works are set in California and Oregon, two locations representing two facets of Kesey's experience that provide the major tensions in his works. ...