For example, when Doctor Felix Rey brought Rachel to visit Vincent Van Gogh in Paris, she had to dress up in order to be seen as a regular person on the train to the hospital. In the book, the fashion of the characters was described in detail. Compared to the 21st century where women are expected to be skinny to be pretty, women in the 1800s were more in the plump side.Īnother aspect of society that we are curious about is the fashion. Voluptuous women were seen as beauty in Europe in the 1800s. According to Medical Daily, women embraced their curves. Rachel was a prostitute in the book, and the way that all men flocked to her in the brothel makes us question how society viewed women and what their standards of beauty were. During our time reading the novel Sunflowers by Sheramy Bundrick, we wondered about the societal standards of beauty during the time this book took place.
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