Canebrake," by Mohammed Mrabet presents a story of Tangier where a woman suffers the insult of being ignored by her drunken husband Kacem day in and day out as she stays cooped up in the house and slaves away cooking for him and his friend Stito. She was never allowed to go out to the hammam (Turkish bath) to bathe as she wished. It is the opinion of this author that she confronts him boldly with evidence of her infidelity with Stito and this causes him to sober up and pay attention to lovemaking with his wife. This is a covert tale of feminine boldness from the Maghreb (Mrabet 142-144).
In the story, the mortal sin of drinking is fought boldly with the visual evidence of Kacem friend Stito's infidelity. He had a bachelor and had no problems because he smoked only kif (a mild hashish blend). It kept his mind clear and...
This was graphically compared with Kacem's drinking, which like his wife's infidelity was a mortal sin. However, he was the first sinner. His indulgence in the forbidden liquid caused him to not just neglect his wife in bed, but to keep her a prisoner in her own hose. She could not go out to the hammam (Turkish bath) where no doubt she could not just go to a spa-like location, but could also get out and meet her old friends and new friends as well.
One certainly feels pity for the young woman who has hardly had any lovemaking since her wedding night due to her husband's drunkenness. This would make her desperate enough to do anything, even as far as transgressing the sacredness of marriage in order to get her husband's attention. Certainly, she took an extreme chance in confronting him…
References
Mrabet, Mohammed. "The Canebrake." The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories . Ed. Daniel Halpern. 1st ed. New York: Viking Adult, 1999. 142-
144. Print.
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