The Winner Of The Preliminary Games Analysis

Olivia D’Addio Mr. Abrams

Girl on the Fridge DRAFT 2 pt 1 3.14.16

It’s 2016 and pop culture is turning America from a man’s world into a woman world. In today’s society, we are constantly concerned with the suppression of women from handling job pay to body standards. Of course, these concerns remain important, but sometimes it is forgotten that the term of equality is not just to raise women’s position of authority but to equalize men and women. While we continue to focus on empowering women, it is also worth considering the way men may handle the strains of gender roles and expectations placed on them. A study done in the United Kingdom in the year of 2013 shows that 56.1% of men committed suicide. This is interesting to note at as we look at the two realistic short

Both reveal insight into the hidden realm of a man’s way of concealing every emotion that may seem to fall under the category of “unmanly” or “Sissyish”. The story “The Winner of the Preliminary games” talks about two friends getting drunk together as a sort of monthly ritual, they do this to help get emotion and stress out, as this is the only way they can express their feelings without being labeled womanly. The second story, “Sidewalks” talks about a man reminiscing on times with his old friend as the two wasted pals play a game against the sidewalk. Though both stories may seem to be about friends just getting drunk together, Keret is really showing us the physically painful compensation men go through in order to suppress their feeling to fit into a man’s world as well as the lengths, sometimes