The Little Coochi Snorcher That Could

I chose to do my analysis on the monologue, "The Coochi Snorcher That Could," I chose this monologue because it reminded me a lot of my psych class.  In my class we learned from one of Freud's theories that children's outlook on sexual things come directly from their parent's reactions.  In the monologue that mother reacted harshly when the main character touched her 'coochi snorcher' so from then on out the girl was scared of her vagina.  She was also unfortunate enough to have a few other bad experiences where her mother overreacted so she has a skewed view of her vagina.  The girl in this monologue is extremely naive, "I put Band-Aids over my coochi snorcher to cover the hole, but they fall off in the water," she believes that water will enter her vagina and make her explode.  She wasn't educated about her vagina, her mother seems like the type of woman who believes if you decided not to talk about something it doesn't exist, or that avoidance is the best method.  But as most people know avoidance or ignorance is not bliss, things will happen and things exist whether or not people decide to acknowledge them.  I believe her mother fears that the girl will become overly sexual if her vagina is talked about and that maybe she will go out and do promiscuous things. I also believe the girl is taken advantage of in the future by the older woman because she is naive and was not educated about her sexuality. If the woman was a man then I think everyone would have agreed that she took advantage of the younger girl. But because she was a woman, the line was kind of blurred. The girl didn't know what she was getting herself into so I truly believe she was taken advantage of, and I believe it happened because she wasn't educated and she was so naive about her 'coochi snorcher'.