Assignment 10/10

In Simone de Beauvoirs excerpt, "The Second Sex" there is one passage that i came across that I found interesting and it drew my attention to what he was actually trying to tell us.



"Thus the paternalism that claims women for hearth and home defines her as sentiment, inwardness, immanence. In fact every existence is at once immanence and transcendence; when one offers the existent no aim, or prevents him from attaing any, or robs him of his victory, then his transcendence falls vainly into the past-that is to say, falls back into immanence."



What is he trying to say to the reader about the actual role women play, and how important they are? After reading this passage a couple of times I think he is trying to show the reader how women are the center piece of the house. They are drawn to the role of being the caretaker and is an important figure in a house hold. The women of the house defines that house by remaing with in that home either emotionally or spiritually, which i think is exactly what the first line of this paragraph is telling the reader. The title of this piece is a perfect title because you always hear the term 'man of the house' and they never talked about the women of the house and what a women actually brings to a house hold.