"Women's Ways of Knowing"?

I accept the challenge, Dr. Wright! I'm going to use "Women's Ways of Knowing"(WWoK) to analyze Roy. Roy starts out as a subjective knower. One such example is on page 81 when he first meets Mattie. He has many feelings and thoughts locked inside, which WWoK describes as "personal, private self, unshareable". As his relationship with Mattie becomes more volatile, he still appears to be in this developmental stage. All authority comes from him and not from others. Even when Mattie is sick and needs medical attention he blows it off. “You’re probably just comin’ down with a cold or something. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with you.” (p. 127) However, a change in his development seems to come about the time he meets Miss Lola. He seems to be transitioning into a Procedural Knower. “He was spooked by [Miss Lola’s] questions and even more perplexed that she seemed to know the answers.” (p.143) Roy is recognizing that some authority (in this case insight from Miss Lola) can come from others. Once Roy grows in this relationship, he seems to stay at this level of knowing until his death.