The women, including a girl, in this short story have patriarchal views of how woman should act, and the story’s conclusion suggest that women redeem themselves to men since they are powerful authority figures in gender roles. Gender roles are shown right away in the beginning of the short story. According to Alison P. Lenton in The concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science, gender roles for “men are generally expected to be more agentic and less emotional than women, and…
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