The Female Stereotype
Stereotypes have been a part of society for a very long time and are still present today. Both Svava Jakobsdottir’s "A Story for Children" and Alice Munro’s "The Office" share a common stereotype regarding the female gender. The female stereotype is the most concrete of all stereotypes which explains why both short stories possess a very similar nature for a typical woman. This stereotypical female is expected to have a delicate character, to take care of the house work and the children, to have no personal identity, and to be relatively simple and inferior in comparison to men. The first aspect of the female stereotype found in the stories as well as reality is the female character. Women are generally seen as fragile individuals. Society believes that a woman has no self-confidence and needs support from some external element. This characteristic is found in "A Story for Children" where the mother has to go to a magazine to "[seek] courage and conformation that she was on the right track in life" (Jakobsdottir 527). In "The Office," the women’s fragile character is suggested by Mr. Malley. He says that he is happy that his wife didn’t see the obscene comments that were written in the washroom because it "upsets
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Approximate Word count = 1397
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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