Another Evening at the Club

In the short story, "Another Evening at the Club," Alifa Rifaat explores a male narrow-minded society in which one woman, Samia, awaits her husband, Abboud Bey, to return from the club. Samia has no rights in her marriage or in her daily life. She has to do whatever her husband tells her to do. Rifaat uses the setting, irony, and conflict to convey the idea of woman's inferior role.
This story takes place in Egypt during the time of arranged marriages. "It was only a few years ago that she had first laid eyes on him at her father's house, meeting his gaze that weighed up her beauty and priced it before offering the dowry" (350). This practice of arranged marriages was common, but it gave the women no real rights. It was essentially telling them that they were property. In this story, Samia loses an expensive emerald ring from her husband. They blame the only person that had come into Samia's room in the time that she took it off, until the time she......

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Title: Another Evening At The Club
Approximate Word Count: 467
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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