RUNAWAY and the WOMAN condition through the relationship of “Thelma and Louise film and Runaway story” – part 2: Thelma, Louise and Carla - women who do not find happiness.

I will continue to talk about the unhappiness of the women in "Thelma and Louise" and "Runaway"...
In the film, Thelma is a young married woman. As she confessed, Thelma got married at the age of 18 and for several years her marriage was imprisoned. Louise's trip was her first trip out of town. The girl's youth was detained in a small house with an overbearing husband, fierce, brute. More than that, in her family, in her relationship with her husband, Thelma has no voice. Throughout the morning scene, Thelma was busy preparing for her husband's breakfast but he did not eat but grumbled and cursed her, Thelma hesitated several times without daring to inform her husband about traveling, Thelma is living a life dependent on her husband. In the following scenes, while on the run, when Louise asks about the money Thelma is having, she pulls out some of the crooked coins in her pocket, that is to prove this woman lacked happiness and freedom in her marriage. A life of boring, clinging to Thelma every day. A wife must tremble at her husband, in the relationship between them there is no equality, respect, it is the unhappiness of the woman in her own marriage.
Louise, a close friend of Thelma's independent life, is confident of serving in a cafe. Louise contrasts perfectly with Thelma: she has a job, have a cumulative amount and a life of freedom. But it was just a cover that helped cover the pains inside. Through the fact that Louise shot dead he intended to rape Thelma, it can be seen in her spontaneous act of profound cause from a similar experience she had suffered. Louise was also forced, abused by a man, she never said it, the truth was not clear but her way of avoiding the past, she had fled to a large area of Texas, showing a great deal of obsession in her mind. Louise shoots the man to do bad things to Thelma not because of his vulgarity but because he insults them. The dialogue broke all of Louise's repressions, and she burst out violently, shooting her in retaliation for her pain, to protect all the women who were offended, misfortune in Louise's past is a long pain, has made her forever not dare to believe in happiness and not dare to receive the love of another man.
Carla, the girl in Alice Munro's Runaway, has a burning desire about happiness when she leaves her parents to follow Clark - the best coach in her class. However, unstable life due to the need to make a living makes Carla seem disillusioned when she living in the mobile home. A pompous and skilled Clark in the past has changed into a rude and never mindful of Carla's feelings. Thus, he forced Carla to play a drama as if she had been harmed by Jamieson's husband in order to extort Jamieson after his death. Clark's infamousness caused Carla to be extremely disappointed but she could not resist her husband's decision. Carla was really disillusioned with her marriage, dreaming soul and her happy expectations was completely shattered.
If we see the connection between Thelma's husband's image and Carla's husband - rough, rude men who never care about their wives' emotions, we will find the unhappiness in the marriage that both women bear. Here, Louise is the unmarried but the pain that makes her never touched to happiness also comes from the cause of the man's brutality. None of them are happy, the intertextual relationship between the two works helps us to better understand the suffering of Western women. They were not oppressed by the feudalism tenets of the East, but they were repressed and imprisoned by power of the man. Therefore, they need a way out for themselves.
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