War Of Roses Gender Roles

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The film “ The War of Roses” was an ideal movie that showed impact and the process of divorce. It also illustrated the changes in gender roles in a marriage, macro and micro elements that contributed to the relationship and showed how it affected the people around them. Divorce can come in different stages ranging from emotional to psychic. In the film, we saw that the couple fell for each other fast and soon later they were married with kids. In the end, the couple ended up going through a hard divorce. I think the divorce was so hard because it was one-sided and the husband didn’t see his relationship slipping away or gave it the attention it needed. One of the stages they went through was the emotional divorce. In the beginning, before the lawyers, the wife started to feel distant and unnoticed from her husband …show more content…

In the very beginning of the film, we see the wife is willing to fight for what she wants and go up against whoever to unbid them. She’s shown as an independent and strong women who stands for what she wants. When she gets married she slowly becomes a woman who job is now to play the role of a housewife which includes maintaining the house, taking care of the kids and supporting the husbands needs first. Only after the kids are off to college and the husband isn’t showing her the love and communication she wants she realizes she wants to do more. She also starts to working and making her own income. In today society, its a norm for women to work on their own and support their family. Although women are also still working on being viewed as equal to men with equal and equal opportunities. In the film, the husband is confused and not as excited and supportive as the wife hoped he would when she told him about her working. The wife becomes more independent again and finds herself as an individual, doing what she wants to do and who she wants to be rather than who husband wants her to

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