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    The document summarizes the plot and characters of the novel "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir. It describes a middle-aged woman whose perfect image of her 22-year marriage is shattered when her husband confesses to having affairs with younger women. As her daughters leave home, she realizes the mistakes she made building her life around others and neglecting her own interests and career. The story appears to critique the traditional roles and expectations of women in marriage in the past.

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    The document summarizes the plot and characters of the novel "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir. It describes a middle-aged woman whose perfect image of her 22-year marriage is shattered when her husband confesses to having affairs with younger women. As her daughters leave home, she realizes the mistakes she made building her life around others and neglecting her own interests and career. The story appears to critique the traditional roles and expectations of women in marriage in the past.

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    The document summarizes the plot and characters of the novel "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir. It describes a middle-aged woman whose perfect image of her 22-year marriage is shattered when her husband confesses to having affairs with younger women. As her daughters leave home, she realizes the mistakes she made building her life around others and neglecting her own interests and career. The story appears to critique the traditional roles and expectations of women in marriage in the past.

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    The Woman Destroyed

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    Fernando Cedillo
    The document summarizes the plot and characters of the novel "The Woman Destroyed" by Simone de Beauvoir. It describes a middle-aged woman whose perfect image of her 22-year marriage is shattered when her husband confesses to having affairs with younger women. As her daughters leave home, she realizes the mistakes she made building her life around others and neglecting her own interests and career. The story appears to critique the traditional roles and expectations of women in marriage in the past.

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    The Woman

    Destroyed
    By Simone De Beauvoir

    Plot
    A woman who has lost her husband, for
    younger woman.
    She is know realizing that this perfect image
    of her life is being broken as her husband
    confess his affairs.
    She know has to deal with the idea of being
    away from her husband, and facing the
    reality of being alone.

    The woman
    A middle age woman that has been
    married for 22 years.
    She is afraid of change, she build her
    live according to others.
    Now she is realizing all the mistakes
    she has made during her married life.

    Collete
    Daughter of the main character
    Married to Jean Pierre
    Her Dad thinks that she made a
    mistake of leaving her studies for her
    husband

    Lucienne
    Second daughter of the woman
    Lives in New York
    She closer with her feelings than Collette
    Her father thinks that she went to New
    York to escape from her mother as she is
    to controller.

    Simone
    Friend of the woman
    She lives in an open relatimship with

    her husband
    She advices the woman to understand

    her husband, and that she should


    forgive him for him being a cheater

    Noellie
    She is the one that is having an affair
    with the woman's husband
    She is a successful Lawyer.
    Has a kid.

    The whole personality of the woman is a critic of how women


    in marriage used to be. If their husbands cheated, they had to
    forget it because they couldn`t leave them as they feel that
    they where only good for marriage.
    For example the woman from the text is given multiple options
    of jobs, but she reject them as she prefers to dedicate her life
    to her family. But when her daughter grown up and they go
    away from home, and her husband always busy with work,
    Now she realize she made a mistake because now she doesnt
    know what to do with her life.

    It also criticizes that the woman is not being a good wife, that
    she doesnt cares for her husbands profession. And that all the
    good times she still rememnber of her and her husband being
    happy are from ten years ago
    The woman said that she was expecting for her daughters to
    leave home so she could have more time with her husband,
    but when this finally happens her husband is always busy with
    work, or at least that is what she think.
    She stop taking care of her image, and also stop taking care of
    her intelligence, she refuses multiple job offers she had.

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