The writer, wrote an unusual story which covers recent problems nowadays too; peeping at women.In the story there are 3 man, workers who works on the roofs or in the basement.When they are fixing the roof, the neighbor woman, starts to sunbathe on her roof.All 3 of man; Harry the older one, Stanley newly married but handsome one, and Tom, who is only 17 ; stare at her like they haven't seen a "half naked woman" (thats what they told her because she wears a red bikini) before.
She is avare of their glances but she ignores them.Although the sun is burning they prefer to work on the roof just to see her.
Stanley nicknamed her as Lady Godiva because she's "naked". Among all 3 of them, Tom peep her the most.-Here the writer refers Tom as "Peeping Tom" - and due to his youth he become obsessed with her.Harry asks their foreman to work at another time -he excused the sun- bacause he was afraid that things would get bigger.
When they decide to leave the roof Tom went to her and tried to talk her. But of course she ignored him, saying if he wanted to see women in bikini why doesn't he go to Lido??
With this story we understand that men can't stand to see a naked woman, and that women could protect themselves.
It's great to see you've read your story already, Ezgi. And as you say, the themes are still relevant today. Can you put this into the context of 1960s feminism? What do the three men represent? Can you relate this to our voyeurism theme? (these are just some things to start thinking/blogging about...)
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