While she is at a men’s college she had a pleasant experience but while at a women’s college she has an experience that would be referred to as boring and “plain” to other people. She uses lots of comparing and describing to drive her point which is that women don’t get things that are as good as what the men have and the women can’t complain about it. She even says that “coal-miners doubtless were sitting down to less” so that she and the other women couldn’t complain about the quality of the food. …show more content…
She doesn’t see anything that would “stir the fancy in” the plain soup that they had just given her. She goes on to say that the beef that was served at the men’s college had spots that were like the spots that “flanks of a doe” have but the women got beef that were “rumps of cattle in a muddy market.” Even the places where they had their meals were different the men had their meals at a “luncheon party” while the women had their meals at the “great dining-hall.” This suggests that the men are having a party atmosphere while the women are having food in a school cafeteria type of