Feb. 7th: Women as aliens
His Vegetable Wife by: Pat Murphy
Fynn is describe as a man who should be alone, and it is not long into the story that you discover why. Fynn decided that he wanted a wife, not for love, but just because he thought that he should have one. He is a farmer, so naturally he buys a package of seeds that says “Vegetable Wife” and grows his wife just as you would grow a tomato plant. Even before she was “ripe” Fynn would look, touch and fondal at her like a “peeping tom” or pervert.
Fynn character is very controling. First off he planted her from a seed. He is controling her to grow. He would check on her three times a day instead of one. He also tied a rope to her ankle so she couldn’t run away.
The Vegetable Wife felt no pain, and it is kind of a good thing becasue Fynn would beat and rape her. Is that why he would do such terrible things to her becasue she felt no pain? She would cry after, which turned Fynn on becasue he thought that some kind of emotion was better than none at all.
This anger and controlling nature that Fynn displayes come from somewhere, and we learn in the story that may women have let him, even his own mother gave him up for adoption. I feel that this is Fynn’s direct source for his controling and angry personality. He tied her up becasue he doesn’t want another women in his life to leave him.
The next time he beat on his wife, she showed no emotion at all, which really pissed him off. He was ready to kill her with his hands around her neck, but then he realised that ”she absorbes air through her skin” so the pressure did not bother her. She in return placed her hands around his neck and killed him. She decided to plant him in the ground just like she had seen him do with all of his seeds and wait to see what grows. I think that her reaction to kill him was a reaction towards violence becasue she only showed emotion when he was violent towards her. It was learned from what she had watch him do to her. She learned from example and he got what was coming to him.
