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The comparison between Lulu and Doris is an inviting one indeed, or we may say that Lulu finds her own voice in Keun’s story. Through Doris’ narrative the appeal of women is validated, and as a result the social relations between the two sexes are rearranged.
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It is plain to see how hard Doris has to try to secure her social standing, and how easily a young woman like her can be victimized at the unintended disposal of men—rather than the reverse. Taking a look back at Lulu’s story, we may also say that there are no such things as a femme fatale, there are only men who, at the exposure of their own weakness, put the blame on the females who strive merely to find their positions—no matter they are in a stifling town, or a hurly-burly metropolis. Since I just waded through James Joyce’s Ulysses a couple of weeks ago, I would introduce my own weird comparison, that is, Doris vs. Clock Beat Amplifier Software For Computer. Molly Bloom (I guess you all have heard of Molly’s notoriously long and vulgar and confusing and non-stop monologue on which the famous madbook ends). Magix Music Maker Hip Hop Edition 6 Serial Number.
The similarity is that both Doris and Molly get full control in their own narrative. To be more specific, in their own story they place themselves on an obviously privileged position, judging the males surrounding them in a confidently condescending, even merciless manner. A more striking resemblance is that neither of them cares too much about how the pronoun “he” is used, or to whom a “he” is referred. The reference of “he” can suddenly change without a clue, and the readers have to figure out who is “he” by some further reading—and some speculation as well.
This casual use of “he” undermines the myth of male superiority quite a bit—it is as if men lost their personalities and therefore looked uniformly the same. It can be argued whether or not Doris’ dominance in her own narrative is a compensation of her frustrations in reality, yet at least the awakening of a female self-consciousness is clearly signaled. Perhaps it is only to Brennan the blind veteran that Doris betrays her real, authentic feeling. However, her feeling towards him is not so much love as compassion (from the beginning to the end I am not sure who she actually LOVES). Their tour around Berlin is a joint effort of two dejected individuals to share and overcome their doleful loneliness. And loneliness, as is testified many times in our readings, is one of the major syndromes of the modern man.