Blog Post 11: First Corninthians into...Second?

During chapter 9 we see Corinthians is an middle aged women. Corinthians is mature, educated, and well experienced/traveled. Even with all these traits she never became a successful person. Even thought she worked hard to marry well and to get a good, respected job, she didn't succeed in any of it. Corinthians is looked at as the most educated sister in the family and Milkman looks up to her for this reason. After all of this, she became a maid for a well-known poet. Corinthians and her mother lied about her job to others. Even though Corinthians is a maid, she never dressed like it. Her uniform for work was never worn outside her job, and she wore high heels when going out in public. Throughout her life she has problems and struggles because she is always trying to live up to others expectations for herself, rather then her own. Since she did not meet her friends and family's expectations, she is ashamed of herself and it changes her character. Towards the end of this chapter Ruth struggles to decide if she will keep living with her man, who is not approved of by society, or go be succesful on her own. In the end, she decides to stay with Porter, which I think is a good choice because she kept saying he was someone who her father would keep her away from. Therefore, she wanted to keep him secret. Personally, I think that she makes her statement clear that shes done caring and trying when she enters her own home and completely ignores what Milkman and Macon are discussing.. Why should she keep acting and trying to be good as her family wanted if she could never meet those expectations.