Dumb Martian

Dumb Martian is a short story by John Wyndham. It is noticeable for the relationship between male and female characters.

An Earth man "buy"s a Martian woman from her family to accompany him on his five-year job in a moon of Jupiter. Law urges him to marry her for anti-slavery. Martian people are a race of human with a died civilization. Their eyes are big and speak a little, they look dumb.

The man behaves so rudely and violent to the woman and urges her to wear colors on her face to look like earth women and says "look like a 'real woman'."

At the and, the martian woman takes revenge and shows that she is clever and the man is dumb.