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Week 2 Activity 1_Gender and Literature

Week 2 Activity 1_Gender and Literature

Q With bell hooks’s definition of patriarchy in mind, annotate Hemingway’s “The Three-Day Blow” to show how it portrays masculinity. Find the story on Google Docsand explain the following in an annotation of 50-100 words: 1. one example that demonstrates the effects of patriarchy 2. one example that shows how conventional ideologies of masculinity shape male behavior. 3. one example in the story that shows the disjunction between expectations of masculinity and lived experience of being a man—that is, how does the story reveal a difference between what Nick feels and how he acts?

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The society always demands from the men to become the “men” that are expected out of them, and while most men succumb to this need for establishing their masculinity, many resist it, Hemingway’s Nick Adams is one such example who does not want to become a part of the race of patriarchy but is torn by the need to fit in, as is evident from his regret of breaking up with Marjorie, but hiding it with masculinity.