Suzette Haden Elgin - Only A Housewife

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SUZETTE HADEN ELGIN

ONLY A HOUSEWIFE

The last straw for Joro Belledarien -- the event that pushed him over the edge

from weary apathy to frustrated rage and gave him the courage to defy everyone

and everything he knew -- was his little sister's puberty ceremony. So long as

Elizabeth, like Joro, had lived at home in his mother's house, he had been able

to endure his situation. It hadn't been pleasant, but it had been bearable; Joro

had been able to keep his awareness of it well buried most of the time.

Because there was someone younger than himself in the house, who had to take

orders from their parents just as he did. Someone he outranked. Someone he could

take out his anger and frustration on whenever his aging father decided it was

time to taunt Joro yet again about his bachelor status. Someone he could subject

to taunting and belittling and teasing. Especially teasing. Joro took tremendous

pleasure in teasing women, whose reactions to the process were endlessly

fascinating; it did them no harm, and it made him feel better about the unjust

world he had to deal with daily. He had even begun keeping a detailed journal of

the phenomenon, classifying and cross-classifying it into a taxonomy of verbal

helplessness, and it was his intention to publish the results in one of the

better scholarly journals when he was satisfied that it was complete.

As long as it was like that, Joro had gotten by. He had in fact grown so

accustomed to the old man's nagging and sarcasm that he hadn't really realized

the true barbarousness of his situation.

Until the morning he was suddenly brought right up against a pair of intolerable

facts. The fact that Elizabeth was actually going to leave, that very day, the

moment the celebration was over and the guests had gone away. And the fact that

once she was gone, he would be the only "child" in the house. He, Joro

Belledarien, a man of thirty years! The only unmarried man of his age in the

whole Kallibar district!

It shocked him, as it no doubt shocked both his parents. Who could have imagined

such a thing? Elizabeth was only thirteen years old. She was still at an age

when her house ought to have been no more than a slightly sensitive swelling

folded like a rosebud against the flawless skin of her left hip. Joro had taken

it for granted that he could count on Elizabeth as a buffer for another three

years at least, and probably for longer than that.

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