Rez Sisters

REZ SISTERS






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2. In which way or ways are they transgressors?



• The way in which some characters are usually dressed and their masculine attitude,especially in the case of Emily and Pelajia:


“She (Pelajia Patchnose) wears faded blue denim men’s cover-alls and a baseball cap to shade her eyes from the sun” (Beginning of Act One)“She (Emily Dictionary) is one tough lady, wearing cowboy boots, tight blue jeans, a black leather jacket” (Page 37, Act 1).








• The lesbian relationship that Emily had withRosabella Baez:

“Rose. That’s Rosabella Baez, leader of the pack. We were real close, me and her. She was always thinkin’ real deep. And talkin’ about bein’ a woman. An Indian woman”(Page 97, Act 2).








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• Pelajia’s critical attitude about the non- paved roads and her willingness to be the chief:


“And dirt roads! Years now thatold chief’s been making speeches about getting paved roads “for my people” and still we got dirt roads all over” (Page 7, Act One).


“The dust today. It’s these dirt roads. Dirtroads all over. Even the main street. If I were chief around here, that’s the very first thing I would do is…” (Page 113, Act Two).




• Annie Cook gets a job as a back-up singer forFritz and comes closer to him:


- I’m singing back-up for Fritz weekends. 25 bucks a gig. That’s something, eh?
- Katz’s whore…
- What?
- You heard me.
-The Katz’s what?
- Chris’sakes. Wake up.
- I love him, Emily


(Pages 107 – 108, Act Two)






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4. Is Highway’s portrait of women politically corrector not?


Highway does not show the reader the ideal or politically correct woman, but the most realistic one, with her own opinion about sex, religion and politics, her worries, arguments, and...