Usually this happens between men and women, so a man will give Richard a drink and pay him a few pennies to go to a woman in the bar and repeat certain things that he has trained Richard to say.

通常是某个男的，给钱让他给某个女人,带教授的话,顾客们会因为。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I want to suggest to you that he did that because a woman is expected to occupy certain conventional roles at this moment, and we see her in one at the very beginning of the novel.

因为在这个时代,女人是被要求扮演,一定的传统角色的，我们在小说的一开始就看到了她。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选