KB-High Noon/ Little Jo

The role of the women in both movies is someone who is constantly ignored and looked down upon. In both films the main women character is forced to give up what she believes in most or loves most to comply with what society or her man figure thinks is ethical and right. In High Noon Amy is forced to give up her strong religious beliefs to win the approval of her husband. Similarly in Little Jo Jo is forced to give up her child and her female identity to survive. The fact that Jo had to give up her entire identity to live shows something about the role of women in history. Jo and Amy had no say in what they wanted or how they should act. Jo was on her own but in the end society made the decision for her. Tompkins discusses this idea of how the woman has no voice. She uses an example saying that a woman was talking and a man tells her that he would appreciate her silence. This shows that the man voice over rules anything the woman has to say. In both films the woman is looked down upon and clearly has no voice in the decisions that are made regarding her life or the well being of her family.