Gender Roles In Grete Wiesel's Novel

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The role of women in this novel has hit the key role that most women carry in any novel of the nurturing and helpful mother/daughter/sister. His sister takes on the mother’s job of caring for Gregor throughout the novel. She tries to comfort Gregor with his arising dilemma of turning into a cockroach. One case where Grete tries to comfort Gregor’s dilemma is when, “Gregor was fed each day, once in the morning, when his parents and rhe maid were still asleep, and a second time in the afternoon after everyone had had dinner.” (24) Grete’s role of the caretaker of the home and of Gregor exemplifies the role she takes on of the woman in this novel.

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