What are the men role an ice house play woman hollering creek?

Answer 1

The men in the icehouse do provide an interesting role in the story. The men were discribed as

drinking until they could possibly find the truth in the bottom of a gold doubloon on the sea bottom.

The men seemed to want to talk to one another and never spoke to each other to explain what they

needed to say about themselves, they just drank and drank.

The men in the story were mean and they treated the women as possessions and hit them and beat

them and used them to have sex when they wanted to and make babies. The men would kill the

ladies when they weren't needed or wanted anymore. Cleofilas father and brothers were the only

men in the story that were good and didn't hurt women or treat them unfairly.

The references in the story of how Juan treated Cleofila and struck her then would weep like a child

and he would be consoled and loved by Cleofila and didn't even appreciate it. Juan's friend

Maximiliano pulling Cleofilia up to him sexually and telling of his wife being shot by him was scary to

Cleofila and she at that point understood that she would never get out and be happy as she always

dreamed she would.

The references in the story proved just how bad the women were all treated and the examples that

were given were vivid and no woman should have to go through these kinds of abuse. Cleofila did

the right thing to find a way out and to go back home to her father with her sons to be sure maybe

they never grew up as their father, no matter how much the town would gossip.