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Carol found employment in the bureau of War Risk Insurance

Publié le 07/02/2012

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Carol found employment in the bureau of War Risk Insurance. Though the armistice with Germany was signed a few weeks after ber coming to Washington, the work of the bureau contioued. She filed correspondence ali day; theo she dictated answers to letters of inquiry. It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she bad found "real work ". Disillusions she did have. She discovered that in the aftemoon office routine stretches to the grave. She discovered that an office is as full of cliques and scandais as a Gopher Prairie (1)....

 

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Commentaire dirigé 1) Do you think that Carol's job justifies the phrase': "She felt the whole of a human t?eing" in the last sentence? 2) Are y ou in favour of women working? Why or wh y not? 3) Should ali kinds of work be accessible to women? 2.

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1) Do you think that Carol's job justifies the phrase: "She felt the whole of a human being" in the last sentence? Carol's job is only a monotonous office-work.

It possesses ali the typical routine, full of strenuous useless details implied by this sort of job.

The atmosphere is dull, and the life is unhealthy.

:Resides, ironically enough the War Risk Insurance bureau goes on working after the Armistice: this stresses the meaninglessness of such an occupation.

Y et this work represents more for Carol than it really is: it is the symbol of ber opening to the surrounding world.

So far, she bad only known the limited and closed world of a small ·midwestem town, but now she discovers new horizons.

She cao come in contact with people from distant and different parts of the world, and thus feels socially useful.

Since she finds out what the life of a business woman is, she becomes aware of ber freedom as an individual.

Just like men, she cao have friends and enemies, but before ali, she cao have "a free sunday", where she can be the master of ber own time.

Carol bas realized the vanity of too long domestic chores for feminity's sake.

She bas come to a new perception of herself as a woman in society, and thus considers work as a way towards self-respect, independence and freedom.

This is why she can say that she "felt the whole of a human being".. »

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