"It's queer how out of touch with truth women are! They live in a world of their own and there had never been anything like it and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if there were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over." (12)
So far there have been a lack of women in the novels we've read (besides Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea) who aren't portrayed as contemptuous... yet again. I chose this line (or paragraph) because it is very applicable in more than one sense. The narrator could be assumed to be christian because he is European and his use of "day of creation." He probably supports what the Bible has to say like "I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet" (1 Timothy 2:12). Oh, the Bible had quite some humor. He views women as a narrow-minded sex who never bother to look beyond their own concerns and what not and are incapable of that. And if that were to even happen, their understanding of the world would be shattered. Yet, the narrator, a white man heading to Africa, will most likely act in the same manner in which he perceives women. He will become the narrow-minded because he will refuse to understand African culture and will undermine them because he will believe his culture is imperialistic. So far, it is he who has lived in his own world and this is his first time heading to Africa.
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