Comparitive - Role of Wife

Question 1

The Help

Answer 1

“tacky” / “too tight”
“she might be built like Marilyn, but she ain’t ready for no screen test”
“white trash” / “nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot”
“be a good wife”
“I want him to think I can do it on my own. I want him to think I’m… worth the trouble”
“how to cook and stuff”

Question 2

Stings

Answer 2

“with excessive love I enamelled it, thinking sweetness, sweetness”
“I stand in a column of winged, unmiraculous women, Honey drudgers. I am no drudge.”
“Queen” / “the hive”
“flying more terrible than she ever was” / “over the engine”
Reference to edge - struggle to establish her own independent identity is a futile one, with the only way she sees her ambition for ‘a state of nothingness’ fulfilled is with “her dead”