The Unseeing Eye

“The Unseeing Eye” In “The Unseeing Eye” the first thing I found that supported the idea that Islamic men have a lesser understanding, not to mention less respect, for the women in their culture than men in the West do is when the old man questioned how a woman was working in a hospital full of men. The final paragraph of the story also fully supports that idea. There is no doubt that the author …

…view is that women know all about their husbands (as Al-Shaykh mentions in the introduction), so she is confused because the old man doesn’t even know if his wife has one eye or two. The title of the story is another presentation of vision. “The Unseeing Eye” is that of the Islamic male, the eye that does not truly see his wife (or any woman for that matter) as anything more than a mother.