May I say that, first off, a rose should not resort to date rape. The results aren't good. When I first read "The Vegetational Fatherhood" I thought that this story was a parody on the social injustices women face when they have a child out of wedlock during the late nineteenth century/ early twentieth century. The father, the rose, is completely held irresponsible for the young woman's condition, of which she had no say in the matter, and the woman is told that instead that she suffers from delusions when, in fact, the doctors think she is an unmarried-mother-to-be.

And then there is the pretty young maiden that is silent- similar to the silent maiden motif we have seen in Snow White and other fairy tales- and she, too, would have had to deal with the same sort of fate her mother did if she had not died. Because of nature, women have to be silent and deal with the consequences of being involved with men