Another Evening At The Club

Women's rights in Egypt

By majority, In American culture today, women are independent, strong -minded individuals. We are no longer put on the back burner to be looked as the inferior ones with no say - so in the world of today. The modern woman no longer has the duty to stay at home and watch the children and do all the house chores all day while the man goes to work all day. Nowadays, women are considered equal as men in the workforce and at home. In "Another Evening At the Club," by Alifa Rifaat, the story is about a husband and wife in relation to woman's rights and the societal values.

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In the short story, "Another Evening at the Club," Alifa Rifaat explores a male narrow-minded society in which one woman, Samia, awaits her husband, Abboud Bey, to return from the club. Samia has no rights in her marriage or in her daily life. She has to do whatever her husband tells her to do. Rifaat uses the setting, irony, and conflict to convey the idea of woman's inferior role.

This story takes place in Egypt during the time of arranged marriages. "It was only a few years ago that she had first laid eyes on him at her father's house, meeting his gaze that weighed up her beauty and priced it before offering the dowry" (350). This practice of arranged marriages was common, but it gave the women no real rights. It was essentially telling them that