Summary Of A Double Standard And Two Offers
France E. W. Harper’s message for her African American female readers is that women can happily live without men and that love isn’t the only goal in life. In the poems “A Double Standard” and “Two Offers” both told a story about a girl that was charmed by a man that didn’t truly love them. At first everything was love and happiness until the man showed their true colors, Harper expressed in “A Double Standard”,
“Can you blame me that I did not see
Beneath his burning kiss
The serpent’s wiles, nor even hear
The deadly adder hiss?” (456).
That love is blind and falling for someone before getting to know the real them can lead to a loveless relationship. In “Two Offers” Janette asked her cousin Laura is the most dreadful fat that can happen
“Can you blame me that I did not see
Beneath his burning kiss
The serpent’s wiles, nor even hear
The deadly adder hiss?” (456).
That love is blind and falling for someone before getting to know the real them can lead to a loveless relationship. In “Two Offers” Janette asked her cousin Laura is the most dreadful fat that can happen