Gigolo

• persona's desire for "no rings through the nose"?

  showcases Plath's comparison between men in marriage and "ring(ed)" farm animals.

  • employ metaphor: compare marriage to life of "BOB"
  • Burden felt by men in matrimony -> dehumanising, rigid and monotonous cycle -> shared suffering of constrained freedom, control and laborious nature of work --> Ultimately result: Loss of individual autonomy
  • Metaphor serves as: critique of society expectations on men in 1960 within confines of matrimony
• context and overall of :no rings through the nose??

  Context: men expected to be provider & protector (financial support and safeguard)

  • overall: marriage -> labourious, burdensome and confining