In the Following Excerpt from the Second Sex (Evaluating the Evidence

question 69

Multiple Choice

In the following excerpt from The Second Sex (Evaluating the Evidence 29.2) , Simone de Beauvoir offers her views on traditional marriage: "The drama of marriage is not that it does not guarantee the wife the promised happiness-there is no guarantee of happiness-it is that it mutilates her; it dooms her to repetition and routine. The first twenty years of a woman's life are extraordinarily rich; she experiences menstruation, sexuality, marriage, and motherhood; she discovers the world and her destiny. She is mistress of a home at twenty, linked from then on to one man, a child in her arms, now her life is finished forever. Real activity, real work, are the privilege of man: her only occupations are sometimes exhausting but never fulfill her. . ."
In Beauvoir's view,

• A)traditional marriage is a kind of death for women.
• B)traditional marriage is very satisfying for some women.
• C)traditional marriage is the foundation of society.
• D)traditional marriage is harder on men than on women.

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