Monday, April 7, 2014
3StoryGenderLens
Throughout the short stories Agatha McGee and the St. Isidore Seven, Nancy Clancy's Nephew, and Rufus at the Door, looking through the gender lens Jon Hassler displays the female characters to be masculine and hold power over the male characters. Hassler would let us meet a dynamic character who starts out to be a stereotypical female who contains all the roles of a female and them changes into a bold aggressive masculine character. In Agatha McGee and the St. Isidore Seven the character is Agatha McGee. Throughout the short story Nancy Clancy's Nephew, George's Aunt Nancy Clancy shows masculine traits and in Rufus at the Door, Rufus's mom arrays being the masculine character in their household.
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I like the idea that you have, well, since it's about the same as mine! I like the three stories that you chose. I don't know if you should say that each of them started out to be a stereotypical female since Agatha started out aggressive at the very beginning of the story when she didn't want to go to the tavern for the meeting and was questioning the idea. Make sure to look at different literary techniques that are at work in these stories in order to help back up your thesis. Most of these stories have various symbols in them that could be used to show the female characters as demonstrating masculine traits. Also, the various character vs. character conflicts are very good examples that show a character's power. What conclusion could you make to tie in everything? Maybe you could say why the author shows female characters as more masculine than male characters. Good job :)
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