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This 8 page paper discusses the role of the 'other woman' or 'the mistress' is the works of Ellen Glasgow's, The Difference, and Alice Walker', Coming Apart(You Cant' Keep a Good Woman Down). The effect of the extramarital affair as evidenced by the works is also included as well as some brief statistical data. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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less than flattering. This is especially true when the woman being portrayed is the other woman in a relationship. In the work of Ellen Glasgows "The Difference" and Alice Walkers
"Coming Apart" this is certainly illustrated. In Coming Apart, which was reprinted in the collection "You Cant Keep a Good Woman Down", Alice Walker addresses the topic of pornography
as if it were the mistress in question. As Alice Walker says of her protagonist in her short story Coming Apart, "He does not know how to make love without
the fantasies fed to him by movies and magazines. (They) have insinuated themselves between him and his wife, so that the totality of her body is alien to him"(Walker ).
Traditionally, the other woman has been treated with very little respect, binding her to the assumption that she is of loose morals, has no respect for herself or the man
that she seduces. It constantly portrays her as willingly destroying the bond between a man and a woman who are married. The mistress in Alice Walkers story, too, seems
to show that the mistress seeks possession rather than love. This is because marriage, to the mistress, entails obligation and demands more emotionally and personally than she is ready or
willing to relegate to someone elses power. In Walkers essay, however, the focus is on pornography and the subtle way in which it demeans everyone it touches, which is then
likened to a mistress. When one really gets down to it, what is a mistress anyway? She is someone who serves as an auxiliary to an existing relationship which is
somehow impaired. Consider in the examples that Walker gives the fact that on some level the needs of each partner are not being met. This does not mean that
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