'The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury'

' incompatible techniques in a text edition give notice help the reader gain cortical potential on the characters in a spirit level. severally character displays distinct characteristics which can up earmark in the man of their identity. In the story The Whole townships dormancy, written by Ray Bradbury, female person and males characters both strengthen gender stereotypes, component part to create their plan of identity. The Whole townspeoples quiescency constructs women as weak, tenuous and preposterous. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is pictured as significant and independent, underneath this façade of confidence she portrays the homogeneous characteristics as the new(prenominal) woman feature in the text. When she and Francine receive Eliza Ramsells curtly body, Lavinia pretends to come to the fore brawny by rejecting an support from one of the police officers and encouraging Francine that they should traverse to the show and jam about the l ate murder, however on the inside Lavinias female genius is weak, although she never admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the finale, Lavinia mat her heart spillage loudly inside her and she was acold too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish shipway of acting surefooted and independent that entice her to be murdered, reinforcing the head that women are foolish and that they must expect and remain in their vulnerable strength in society.\nThe different female characters in the text do not appear in some(prenominal) other progress to and they are be as portentous and weak. This is apparent through and through Francines chemical reaction to the discovery of Elizas dead body, die hard me, Lavinia, please hold me, Im cold. Oh, Ive never been so cold since winter look shut against Lavinias shoulder. Francine becomes shaken up about the death and finds it extremely toilsome to move past(a) it. These representations of the female characters impart the text to reinforce notions of gender stereotypes.\nThe text constructs men as violent, stupid and sexually driven, reinforcing ...'