Under Milk Wood

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be right which isn't the case. Tom's complete sexist attitude is shown by the word "girls" here he generalises about any females ability to learn Latin although I'm sure that isn't the case and he just makes the comment purely because of his sexist nature.
Tom's sexism isn't just used against his sister, he uses it to put others down as well, "like a girl's: Tom thought that truly pitiable". The sexism Tom is showing here is by discriminating against Philip due to his hair apparently looking like a girls. He describes this as "truly pitiable" which shows how strongly he feels. Tom uses the word "girl" as an insult as if by calling Philip a girl he feels he has insulted him. This is a very sexist attitude, as he shouldn't be discriminating against females in this way.

Whenever Maggie acts in a way that Tom wouldn't, Tom automatically says she acts in that way, as she is a girl, "girlish way of taking things". This quotation is where Maggie gets agitated and Tom blames that on the ...

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her intelligence as inferior to Tom's. The reason that Maggie thought this knowledge was so wonderful was probably partly down to the fact that it was Tom that had the knowledge. As Maggie had such respect for Tom and she always felt Tom was right, as she had different types of knowledge and different ways of behaving to Tom she automatically thought that her ways were wrong as they were different to Tom's.

When Tom thinks to the future he thinks of a life still with Maggie, almost the same as it is now with Tom still being in control, "punish her when she did wrong". Tom said the word "did" almost as if he was certain that Maggie would do wrong and that it was almost definite that she ...

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