Question

What is the most important lesson that the narrator of “The Women’s Baths” learns in the story? (

Answer 1

Have you read the story? How is the grandmother treated at home, by the narrator's mother? How is she regarded there in her family? Then, in contrast, how is she treated at the baths? How is she regarded there? The narrator notes an important difference in her grandmother as they leave the baths, doesn't she?

Answer 2

Yeah I read it. It was so stupid I didn't understand anything. Basically all it was is a lesbian orgy party.

Answer 3

An orgy, with the narrator's grandmother, who we are told "had passed the age of seventy"? I doubt she'd be up for it.

Public bathing (the sexes divided) forms a part of many traditional cultures. The story takes place in two locations, right? You didn't get a sense of how different those two locations were in one essential respect? Having to do with what the narrator focuses on.

Perhaps the story didn't hold your attention? It can be difficult when the themes, the setting, and the language are far removed from our own experiences.

Do you like reading in general, or not too much? If you do like it, what do you tend to read?