women fitting to a beauty standard.

I have read such things like “the bell jar” and “Jane eyre” sometimes not even remembering some parts where it was so misogynistic towards the main women in there story. also from the other readings that Isabella gave to us. I want to mainly talk about the story called ” Menstruation at 40″ I talked about this on the annotation thing but the line where she writes ” the bell is not a clock, nor a bell tolling, but in the eleventh month of its life, I feel the November, of the body as well as the calendar.” although these were the first few lines, they stuck out to me, they had a way of showing how a period or the loss of a child in the cold months of November being a very sad, lonely, time for a person but especially for a woman going through her period or the loss of a child.