Dumb Martian
Dumb Martian (1952)[1]. is a short story by John Wyndham. It is noteworthy for the relationship between male and female characters.
An Earth man "buy"s a Martian young woman (Lellie) from her family to accompany him on his five-year job on a small uninhabited moon of Jupiter. Anti-slavery laws obliged him to marry her to get her a passport. Martian people are a race of human with a extincted civilization. They have big eyes and speak a little, so they look surprised and dumb.
The man (Duncan) behaves rudely and violently to Lellie and urges her to wear colors on her face and do her hair to look like earth women and tell her "look like a 'real woman'."
Once a pedologist goes to the planet for a one-year mission. He treats Lellie well and teaches her reading. This makes Duncan angry, specially when she was reading a book and asks them what was the women's rights. Duncan hates the new man and finally executed a plan to kill him.
At the and, the martian woman takes revenge, kills him and shows that she is clever and the man is dumb.