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A 3 page paper which examines oppression in Alice Walker’s short story Coming Apart. No additional sources cited.
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historical legacies. The couple, an African American couple, address these elements and try to rise above them, learning from each other and delving into their own identities. The following paper
examines the types of oppression as well as privilege possessed in the story. Alice Walkers Coming Apart The first element of oppression in the story involves the element
of pornography. The husband is enticed and aroused by images of naked women in magazines and they are apparently predominantly white. The wife sees these magazines and does not necessarily
know why she is uncomfortable with them but she is: "She cannot say to him: But they are not me...That she feels invisible. Rejected. Overlooked" (Walker). But through his use
of pornography, for whatever reason it is important to him, he is oppressing her and their relationship. This is evident when he begins to realize that as she grows deeper
in examining the situation, that he cannot "make love to his wife as she really is" because he cannot accept her as an individual unto herself (Walker). At the
same time he sees her intelligence and confrontation of the truth as oppressive: "He feels oppressed by her incipient struggle, and feels somehow as if her struggle to change the
pleasure he has enjoyed is a violation of his rights" (Walker). As a man he is ignorantly assuming that he has the right to have sexual fantasies about white women,
but yet he is not realizing that this is a form of oppression as well, which is something his wife points out. While she is oppressed in relationship to
his desiring women in magazines she is also oppressed by the history of their people, as is he. She slowly researches, finds articles, essays, that enlighten them both to some
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