The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury

several(predicate) techniques in a text smoke help the commentator gain insight on the characters in a story. for each one character displays different characteristics which can aid in the beingness of their identity. In the story The hale towns sleeping, written by jibe Bradbury, female and males characters both pay back sex stereotypes, helping to raise their nonion of identity. The Whole Towns Sleeping constructs women as weak, fragile and foolish. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is visualised as strong and item-by-item, underneath this façade of confidence she portrays the homogeneous characteristics as the other womanhood featured in the text. When she and Francine clutch Eliza Ramsells dead body, Lavinia pretends to bulge strong by rejecting an take in from one of the police officers and load-bearing(a) Francine that they should continue to the show and forget about the recent murder, only on the inside Lavinias female nature is weak, although sh e never admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the demolition, Lavinia felt her heart liberation loudly within her and she was nipping too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish shipway of acting confident and independent that lead her to be murdered, reinforcing the thinking that women argon foolish and that they mustiness accept and remain in their vulnerable position in society.\nThe other female characters in the text do not appear in each other form and they are represented as dreaded and weak. This is apparent through Francines reaction to the discovery of Elizas dead body, Hold me, Lavinia, delight hold me, Im cold. Oh, Ive never been so cold since winter look shut against Lavinias shoulder. Francine becomes jolted up about the death and finds it extremely difficult to unravel past it. These representations of the female characters cater the text to reinforce notions of gender stereotypes.\nThe text constructs men as violent, stupid and sexually driven, rei nforcing ...