The Role Of Gender In The Friday Everything Changed

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Labelling persons according to the levels in the society is strictly manifested everywhere. This designation within people is shown in the novel’s text, “The trouble was, I just didn’t want to do it. I felt more depressed than sexy, if you want to know the truth.” (Salinger 96). Holden is talking about a young prostitute named Sunny who comes to him because of his agreement to have sex, although he declines after he meets her. His rejection to this represents his depression mostly, but also his thought of categorizing someone as a prostitute and having sex with her as stereotype and corrupt. Sex hugely impacts one’s loss of innocence according to what society mostly thinks. Although people just create this idea in their minds, which shows being …show more content…

A prominent case of this constructionism is carried in the short story, The Friday Everything Changed, “Because the boys were stronger and sat near the back they usually got the National Geographics first, ... while us girls had to be satisfied with the Junior Red Cross News…” (Hart 1). This obviously emphasizes the domination of males among females. Due to men’s masculinity, this social construct is developed and the fight against men and women around the world consistently occurs. Certainly, men and women have different anatomy and structure, but this does not mean that they have unequal rights due to this dissimilarity. Moreover, this division between genders is apparent in the text, “The first thing, clearly evident by recess on Monday morning, was that the boys had decided not to let us girls field at softball anymore…” (Hart 3). This line classifies the boys as better than girls in softball or in any sports at all, that they had the right to ban them from playing as well. Noticeably, this is considered wrong and unjust since no one has the right to tell anyone what to do or not, despite the levels that the people have

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