The Women in Duddy’s Life

The Women in Duddy’s Life

Most of the women he knows in his life are on a downwards spiral through crime organizations and a lost of realization in their life. Some like Yvette can stay through the rough patches that he creates for her and keep on staying together forever. But others just try to lie in front of Duddy’s face all the time and later down the road he finds out the truth and doesn’t want to be around them. While some he just knows through the family and only talks to them at a time of need.

To Duddy Yvette is a woman which he can manipulate to his liking and use her to bypass the racist people that don’t like Jews. Duddy never seems to act once a bit happy or good feelings towards Yvette, mostly the opposite with anger and wild outbursts. Duddy might be keeping her by her side because she probably looks or talks like his mother in a way. Example duddy Aunt Ida said in the novel that he is trying to find someone like his mother. Duddy learned important information about women kind from Yvette through the many arguments he had with her he learned, not to lie or be angry with any kind hearted women like her. Also try to listen to what she may be saying about his life outcome, which eventually her advice proves out to be solid.

Linda in Duddy’s life seems to appear at times when his enemies try to hurt him or his family. Duddy seems to run into at least a couple times in the novel either when he was still a waiter or when he was looking for Lennie at McGill. When duddy ever see’s Linda they have some type of anger issue and they never see themselves again until Duddy is doing something important in his life. At the near beginning of the novel Duddy tells himself he never wants to see Linda again after the Irwin con game that she had a part in, but that never really happens. The one main thing duddy learns from Linda is to never trust a women, as he never keeps honest with Yvette half the time. If Duddy never met Linda in his life he may have had a better relationship with...

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