The Collector of Treasures

The Collector of Treasures

I chose to interpret Bessie Head’s The Collector of Treasures. I believe the story shows in detail the hardships that women, especially Dikeledi, endure throughout their life regarding sex and race. Looking at the gender of women in more detail, the reader comes to realize that women were treated unfairly, without a chance to better themselves through education. The story shows how one woman was not given a chance to make her own choices that would affect her life in the future. I believe this story is about a troubled woman finally fighting back against sexism and inequality to prove that women still have the right to make important choices that affect everyday life.
At that time and place, especially, women were not given a chance to prove themselves important because they were automatically, “regarded as being an inferior form of human life” (Head 59). Women had no choice but to suffer this inferiority, which was brought upon them ...