Food, a necessity in life is enjoyed by everyone. However, people are not treated the same when it comes to food. As stated in the article “Two cafeterias” written by Virginia Wolf. Comparison and contrast are the rhetorical devices that she uses. She tells of her dinner experience at a university visit. She attends a men’s cafeteria, and a women’s cafeteria, and notices a distinct difference between the two. In which she uses as a symbol of the way there is a discrepancy of the way women are treated in society.
She begins by pointing out how novelists never mention food. “it is part of the novelist’s convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings.” As if soup, salmon and ducklings are an expectation. Even though nobody talks about it, she takes the liberty to defy that convention. She describes the cooked fish that has been sunk into a
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deep dish that’s covered with a counterpane cream. This dish is enjoyed by the men of this university. While the woman on the other hand do not receive the same dish. She describes the food she was served when dining with the women, “Here was the soup.it was a plain gravy soup.” she persists to explain what she saw when served her dinner. “Here was through the transparent liquid.” When the beef and its sides of greens and potatoes. The sprouts were curled and yellowed at the edge. The food she has in front of her paled to the dinner she was served at the men’s hall. She vividly describes the setting in which she consumed her food.
The way they were served. The way the waiter refilled their wine classes, “wineglasses had flushed yellow and flushed crimson; had been emptied; had been filled” The way they were relaxing after dinner. “no need to be anybody but oneself.” Everyone is happy to be who they are because there is no reason not to. They all get to experience the joy of a pleasant dinner. While the women do not receive the same joy. Instead the woman’s hall seems cold, and not in the sense of temperature but, in the sense of enthusiasm and eagerness. When the biscuits came she stated “these biscuits to the core “, dry and common, Nothing fancy about it. With the biscuits came the necessity of water. Which came in a big water jug that was passed around. Unlike the men, who had been served their drinks, in the hall close by. When dinner was done and all was consumed, “everybody scraped their chairs back” this statement portrays the vagueness and the lack of energy in this dining hall. They all got up, not a word to another person as they walked through the doors that swung
violently. “there was no reason to complain of human’s nature’s daily food” she stated that she didn’t have a problem with the food that was served. However, the problem lies with the equality between men and women. She states, “supply was sufficient and coal-miners doubtless were setting down to less.” She recognizes that there are people who eat little or nothing, and she does not complain. Matter of fact she does not complain once in this article, but she does expose the difference in treatment of men and women. From the service to the surroundings to the atmosphere of the cafeteria. There difference between how men and woman are treated needs to be addressed. Women deserve the same as men, no matter of gender people deserve the same treatment. it’s wrong to prioritize men over women or, women over men, and it is an issue in many cultures of the world today.
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