The Bell Jar: Chapter 2

Journal Entry
#3
October 31, 2007
Chapter 2
Page 15 Paragraph 3
Quote:
"Great white bearskins lay about underfoot, and the only furniture was a lot of low beds covered with Indian rugs. Instead of pictures hung up on walls, he had antlers and buffalo horns and a stuffed rabbit head. Lenny jutted a thumb at the meek little gray muzzle and stiff jackrabbit ears."

This is definitely a mans room because no woman would dare put dead animal parts in her house. Women were not supposed to go hunting. Women that saw men with animal head and skins were supposed to be in aw of the men because it was so manly of them. It gave the man bragging rights, making him feel special. Men like to have trophies to make them feel good about themselves, and that is what the animal skins and animal heads are. They are his trophies.