Beauty, Pornography, And Disability In Pig Tales - 1687 Words

Pig Tales is a book about beauty, pornography, and disability. The protagonist of the book is a white woman who is not able to speak clearly about herself and who feels isolated from the world around her. As a reader, the narrator s name is not told throughout the novel. However, she has two boyfriends throughout the book named Honore and Yvan. The narrator begins the book explaining how naming is important but is never able to speak about her own name and the experiences she has with self-image. The female narrator does not have a job and is offered a sales position at a perfume store one day. The owner explains The important thing is to look lovely and well groomed at all time (Darrieussecq, 1997). She then accepts the job and†¦show more content†¦The sow is not able to voice her thoughts and feelings ever and struggles with her beauty. She is constantly trying to be seen as attractive to her boyfriends and other people but it never really happens. The allusion is made ab out the sow where she talks about how it was becoming harder to use her hands and then was fired from her job because of this issue. She was not able to perform her job like she was before and developed a disability (Darrieussecq, 1997). Throughout the novel, Pig Tales, the narrator was very silent about her life and did not want to be open about herself. The author Darrieussecq was trying to explain throughout Pig Tales that these nameless women s voices are often silent and not heard (Darrieussecq, 1997). Pig Tales can relate to feminism in many ways. Some ways that the novel relates to feminism are body image, sexuality and relationships, women s rights, inequality in the workplace, and race and class. First body image relates to Pig Tales in many ways. When the narrator first started her job at the perfume store, she was not big or the size of a pig. She was beautiful and the owner explained to her that the goal of this job was to come in every day and look very nice and put tog ether. However, as the woman began becoming comfortable with her job and lifestyle she started to put on some weight. People then began judging her and was probably one of the reasons her boyfriend Honore left her to be homeless. Her job was