y cooperation; only coercion like "go ahead and You do Your thing to me". Dean is wanting Marylou to sleep with his friend with little regard to anything she feels. She is a women, and, what is more to Dean she is a whore so of course she will sleep with Sal. To Sal's credit though he does ask what she wants or thinks from the start but this sudden care seems to arise due to his own nervousness and insecurities not any kind of genuine feeling for Marylou. Her identity as seen through the eyes of men would fall into the whore stereotype of women. This is the exact opposite from Sal's Aunt.
             The most apparent treatment of Sal's Aunt as something less than an equal comes at the end of part one. Sal has just returned from his first trip west. He is tired. He has been starving for three days now and of course eats everything in the house. Then his Aunt's few extensive lines in the entire novel occur, and in a decidedly motherly fashion she says "Poor little Salvatore". She has fulfilled Sal's entire need of her. She has been a mother to cook for him and fret over him. This passage seems to point out the completely flat identities women were allowed or perceived to have by Sal. Women need few lines because the only thing they need to say is "go ahead and do me" or "oh, poor baby". The virgin or the whore; the only identities men saw.
             Not all women fit under these subcategories within Sal's perception of women. This slight twist is apparent through examination of the character Terry. Though only in the book a little while, she has relatively lengthy dialogue (for a woman) and a very signifi
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