Stereotypes on the Story ‘SHOUT ‘ by Dagoberto Gilb
Scientists are busy in well-equipped laboratories designing some advanced discoveries while some of those scientists are going home to meet scenes of distress in their families due to conflicts. Forget about science and education, but the simple need to work to provide the family’s security and the stresses of that home becomes even more striking. Such is a scenario present in Dagoberto Gilb’s story ‘Shout’ where the reader is shown the life of a young struggling family undergoing hardships which situations have forced on them. In this case, stereotype is used to mean over simplified image of a particular person.
Glib uses stereotypical sex roles to illustrate how a man and his wife in a relationship does just what is necessary to keep their family together despite a considerable number of problems they are undergoing. From the story, we see that a man comes home after hard day labour and he is blocked from entering into the house(GLIB,2007). This can be very irritating for someone who has been working all over the day and what he needs is to get into the house and relax. The man and his wife then engage in some conflict to the extent of physical violence. At the end of the day, the two partners are forced by the situations they are going together and engage in the sex which then puts them together again.
In summary, both the husband and the wife in the story ‘Shout’ by Glib undergoes difficult situations due to lack of stable employment. At the end of the day, they are two people brought together by love but ultimately kept together by the obligations of the family and the needs of their children.
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Gilb, D. (2007). Oily Hair con Slicked Back Notes on Greasy Literature. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 32(2), 173-177.