Jiunn Siow
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In the Web article A First-Rate Girl”: The Problem of Female Beauty by Adelle Waldman,Waldman dives into the topic of beauty in literature.According to Waldman, beauty is what attracts men to women.In literature,novelists often create a scenario in which beauty brings a man and women together with emotional and spiritual strings attached.However, according to Waldman ,this is a big fault by many of these novelists because if love is just driven by a desire of beauty, then the relationship will go wrong somewhere.It’s like a man just seeing a beautiful woman and then immediately going after her even though he does not know who she is. Wald man also said “When a novelist does…show more content… First of all, it’s common for men like Frank the have the want to have someone to be with especially a woman.In addition being with a beautiful woman represents masculinity and creates an image for Society to see. Since Frank only pursues those two things, Frank and April never truly love each other and April only gives in b/c of Frank’s desire.In addition, when April wants the baby, it represents a rejection of him since it’s also Frank’s baby.This rejection shows that their bond is not the bond of a true relationship b/c if they did have one, they would say they would take responsibility for the