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Thanks for your responses!
I’m wondering just how dependant the women in Pulp Fiction are. Mia seems to be financially dependent on Marcellus but she seems to lead her own life, for instance she says she spends a month every year in Amsterdam.
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I quite disagree. Don’t forget that she went to Jack Rabbit Slims in the first place because Marcellus himself fixed her a companion. She wouldn’t have gone alone otherwise. That shows dependancy in every aspect. And Vincent panicked more than Mia simply because he would have paid a higher price if Marcellus came to know of the incident. Esmeralda is a female cab driver, but she is only a supporting character and isn’t given enough time to develop in order to explore her role. As a matter of fact she might just have been included just to make the plot flow. In the case of Bonnie, I agree. It seems she’s the only female who seems having the upper hand in her family, to Jimmy’s expense. After all Jimmy is presented as a dork: the way he talks, the clothes he wears, the importance his relatives eem to have on his life (think his unvle & aunt and the furniture). He does not possess the cool as ice persona of, say, Jules, Vincent, Butch, or The Wolf. And to an extent he’s used as a contrast to these characters…to highlight the difference between the cool independent man and the dork who’s even afraid of his own wife. QT seems to wants to show us the results behind an imposing woman.
P.S. Also don’t forget the Captain Koons scene when Chris Walken confronts the young Butch. Even if the boy looks barely 10 years old, Koons still regards him as the new breadwinner of the family in absence of his father. Again, the woman dependancy on the man role is highlighted.