Dumb Martian
Dumb Martian (1952)[1]. 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 young woman (Lellie) from her family to accompany him on his five-year job in a small uninhabited moon of Jupiter. His company's agent urges him to marry her for anti-slavery laws to give her a passport. Martian people are a race of human with a dead civilization. Their eyes are big and speak a little, so they look surprised and dumb.
The man (Duncan) behaves so rudely and violent to Lellie and urges her to wear colors on her face and do her hair to look like earth women and says "look like a 'real woman'."
Once an pedologist goes to the planet for an one-yer 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.