Difference Between Women and Men

As Dr. Ogden mentioned in his blog that The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson “is nothing but an aggregation of fine, specific and precise details”. I agreed with him. Generally, women are more careful, precise, and organized than men because women tend to care about little things such as waking up early in the morning to put their makeup on. On the other side, men would simply ignore their pimples on their face (which they can choose to put some concealer to cover them). In a relationship, women care about a lot of small details that men could never imagine of, so men would always think that women are the most complicated animals in the world. Women might be more precise than “just like a work of needlepoint”. They can become as detail as to count every single stitches on the work of needlepoint if they want to know the total number of stitches. This is an exaggeration, but what I want to mention is that men will think that most of the things that women do are consider as boring, waste of time, and useless because they do not understand how important and how much the women care about those small little details. So there is this “forever boundary” between men and women.

In The Innocent Traveller, Rachel runs the matriarchy. She is “yet the wife and mother of her household” (Wilson, 143); however, she is not marry. This proves that women does not care about what position they are in, but they will still do their part to keep their home clean and tidy, and at the same time, they will also take care of their family. Most women want everything to be perfect in their life (but nothing is be perfect), so they will do their best to achieve their goals. Mrs. Hamilton Coffin is one of the best examples to show a woman who tries to achieved great accomplishments in order to have a successful life. She recycles to help keep the ecosystem unpolluted, eats healthy food to live a longer life, and exercises to keep a fit body shape. She is an example of the ideal woman for success. However, most men in now a day will die earlier than women because they do not care about eating healthy food. Nor do they care about trying to quit smoking, since smoking will affect not only themselves, but also the people around them. Most men are afraid to care about the little details because they do not want to become 'girly'. They have to act tough in front of people or mainly women in order to show their power, strength, and their position in the society.

It might take men thousand and thousand of years to understand women because women are unpredictable and change their point of view easily. Even I would question myself sometimes, asking myself about who I am and why am I doing this.