Night Women

“Night Women” is another heart touching story written by Edwidge Danticat. I think this is an interesting story about this woman, who is a prostitute and a mother of her little son. The narrator of the story doesn’t have a name. This prostitute woman is the telling the reader that there are two types of women: night women (prostitutes) and day women (the one who take of the family and runs a household in a typical sense). She is the night woman, who practices her profession next to her young sleeping son’s bed. Because they are poor, they only have one room, which is split into two with a curtain. She worries that her son will find out about her truth one day, because she sees him becoming older and more sexually aware. She lies to him to keep him innocent and hides what she is really doing. She is constantly fighting the truth everyday to protect her son from her reality. She does it for her son, because of the deep love she has for him. At night, when she dresses up and make herself look prettier, her son asks her that why she is doing this. So, she tells that she’s waiting for an angel to come, who will bring your father back. While she is with her suitors, she makes sure that her son sleeps with radio and earphones on, so that he won’t find out the truth. On the other hand, she thinks if her son will ever wakes up and find her with one of her suitors, she will tell him that it’s his father visiting for one night. The angles have sent him here for one night, so that you can meet your father. And if he asks about the angles, she’ll say that they haven’t arrived yet and tell him that angles have themselves a lifetime to come to us. I think that because she is a poor and helpless mother, who’s in this professor for some money, so she can take care of her son. So, I don’t think that she’s doing something wrong. It could’ve been wrong if she had done it for her own satisfaction. I also think that most of these night women are in this kind of profession because of their helplessness. I don’t think women are only responsible for it, it the men who comes first to turn woman’s life into a different angle.