Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood :: Margaret Atwood Rape Fantasies Essays

Rape Fantasies by Margaret Atwood Rape Fantasies is written by Margaret Atwood in 1977. Basically this short myth is about the narrator, named Estelle, recalling a conversation of several women during their lunch hour. It starts with one of Estelles co-workers, ask the question How about it, girls, do you have rape fantasies?(pg 72) The story goes on with severally woman rotund their supposed rape fantasy to one another. As each is telling their fantasy, Estelle is doing her best to try to deflect the situation by qualification jokes about their fantasies. After all the women have told their fantasies, Estelle says, those arent rape fantasies. I mean, you arent acquiring raped, its just about guy you havent met formally who happens to be more personable than Derek Cummins . . . and you have a good time. Rape is when theyve got a knife or something and you dont want to.(pg 74) Estelle then goes on to rebuke about her rape fantasies from about to be raped by a short, ugly guy d ieing from leukemia to squirting maize juice in another attackers eye.I believe that her use of characters in the story was good. This type of story telling would seem typical to me for girls in an office setting. I don?t think that they would really talk about the fantasy of being forcible raped by telling their sex with a stranger type story instead. I likewise think that the point of view is important. Estelle is retelling the story through her view to mortal else. She is probly at a bar or something, telling her story to some random man she met. I believe that she is trying to control a possible bad situation, maybe avoiding a rape, because she says in the last knave ?..how could a fellow do that to a person he?s just had a long conversation with, once you let them hump you?re human, your have a life too, I don?t see how they could go ahead with it, rights??(pg 78)I actually enjoyed this short story. I really like the way Margaret Atwood laces the humor into her stories, li ke making drama the blond receptionist and the other blond, and how they compete with one anther.