Bailey and Nadine know their costumers very well. While narrating each of their stories, Bailey and Nadine believe that educating the readers about their precious customers “calls for telling straight out, the way it was. Pure, simple, and clean” (Naylor 40). With the exception of Miss Maple, these narrators hardly dive into as much detail about the male characters as they do with the women. In spite of the greater emphasis on the women, such as describing Jesse Bell’s miserable life with the arrogant Kings or Esther’s sad sexualized life, men are ironically the dominant figures of every story. it is an inevitable process because society value the wealth and labor of men more since they are evidently stronger and less emotionally incapable like the
Bailey and Nadine know their costumers very well. While narrating each of their stories, Bailey and Nadine believe that educating the readers about their precious customers “calls for telling straight out, the way it was. Pure, simple, and clean” (Naylor 40). With the exception of Miss Maple, these narrators hardly dive into as much detail about the male characters as they do with the women. In spite of the greater emphasis on the women, such as describing Jesse Bell’s miserable life with the arrogant Kings or Esther’s sad sexualized life, men are ironically the dominant figures of every story. it is an inevitable process because society value the wealth and labor of men more since they are evidently stronger and less emotionally incapable like the