Why Are Women "Coy"?

Andrew Marvell paints an interesting portrait of a coy woman who doesn’t seem to share the same sort of interests as he does. Women aren’t coy exactly just because of having their virginity or just because they like to toy around with people. Most of the time, they’re “coy” because they really have no interest in whomever is making the advances to them. Of course, in Marvell’s time there is most likely the idea that men are the ones who choose their lovers and that the women really have no choice.

In all reality, however, I think the biggest importance here is that women are now able to decide who they are and aren’t attracted to, no matter what a man says. Of course, there is the possibility that she is just being playful and wanting to see how he reacts to her. Although, telling her that she will eventually be unattractive almost always will ruin a woman’s opinion of you. Making her angry is not the way to get her into bed and it will most likely just cause her to give you a slap across the face. As stated before, the time period may dictate the fact that men will dictate the relationship, so when he says that it is over, it’s over, no matter what the woman says.