The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury

Different techniques in a textual matterbook empennage help the reader shoot insight on the reputations in a story. Each character displays different characteristics which can assistant in the creation of their identity. In the story The Whole townspeoples Sleeping, indite by Ray Bradbury, effeminate and males characters both reinforce grammatical gender stereotypes, helping to create their notion of identity. The Whole Towns Sleeping constructs women as weak, imperfect and foolish. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is portrayed as fuddled and independent, underneath this façade of confidence she portrays the same characteristics as the some otherwise woman have in the text. When she and Francine discover Eliza Ramsells dead(p) body, Lavinia pretends to out strong by rejecting an escort from one of the police officers and encouraging Francine that they should lapse to the show and forget nigh the recent murder, however on the inside Lavinias womanish nature is weak, although she never admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the death, Lavinia snarl her heart going loudly within her and she was frigid too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish ways of performing confident and independent that cover her to be murdered, reinforcing the idea that women be foolish and that they must hope and remain in their unsafe position in society.\nThe other female characters in the text do not appear in any other form and they are be as fearful and weak. This is observable through Francines response to the discovery of Elizas dead body, Hold me, Lavinia, please give way me, Im cold. Oh, Ive never been so cold since winter eyes fill up against Lavinias shoulder. Francine becomes shaken up about the death and finds it exceedingly difficult to move olden it. These representations of the female characters allow the text to reinforce notions of gender stereotypes.\nThe text constructs men as violent, dumb and sexually driven, reinforcin g ...