If possible without spoilers because I still haven’t finished the book but just read this chapter and I’m left a bit confused.
The scene I’m talking about is when the narrator goes with her sister to the bathhouses and a couple (I assume) comes in, then we get 2-3 pages of the narrator analyzing and observing the one she refers to as the “tomboy”. She goes on about her looking muscly but at the same time not really (mentioning her soft skin and eyes but at the same time wanting to peak under her towel), and if someone who identifies as a man should be allowed in the women’s bathhouses (except it just seemed like the person was just a masculine woman).
The book is usually advertised as being about the hardships of being a woman, so was the goal of this scene to make us see how the world can judge women that go against societal norms or am I missing the point completely?
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