Expectation Kaplan’s “Doe season” and Oates “Where..?”
When a child is born, they already have expectations of what they should be and become. These expectations being before the child is even born. The expectation that comes from family, like their parents and society. The parents always having big dreams and an image of what they want their child to be. They plan for their child to become smart, with successful careers and they push their images on their kids always telling them to be the best, and scolding them for doing anything less. There is also a lot of expectation that comes from society, the main one being gender roles. Society puts an expectation on people based on gender. If you are a male you are supposed to be strong, masculine, …show more content…
On this particular day, Andy is going on a hunting trip with her father, his friend Charlie Spreun and Charlie’s son Mac. It is not unusual for Andy to go on hunting trips with her father but it is applied that it is her first time going hunting with Charlie and his son Mac. Charlie can’t seem to understand why Andy was going along on the hunting trip and he didn’t really want her there, say things like “I don’t understand why she is coming”, and “she’ll just add to the noise and get tired besides” (1). Charlie 's spoon felt this way because of society gender roles. In charlie 's eye, Andy shouldn’t like going hunting, fishing, and shooting. To Charlie, the wood was to “get away from the house and the old lady” (5), the wood was a place “Where the woman don’t go” (5). For Charlie, Andy was breaking every gender role that he knew by coming on the trip. aWhile Andy didn’t live up to her gender roles, Connie did. Connie was the average fifteen-year-old girl: She didn’t get along with her mother, loved to hang with her friends, going to the mall, movies, occasionally across the street to a burger shake that was crowded by older boys and how pretty she was. Connie was the typical girly girl fitting perfectly into her gender roles. Her favored thing out of all the thing she loved was her looks. That was all she knew. Whenever she thought of herself in the moment she alway knew that “she was pretty and that was everything” (1). Connie’s mother would watch her “craning her neck to glance into mirrors” (1), and would always say "Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you 're so pretty" (1). Connie didn’t think she was pretty she knew that she was. Being pretty was everything. Because of this, she never realized that Arnold Friend was no friend at
When a child is born, they already have expectations of what they should be and become. These expectations being before the child is even born. The expectation that comes from family, like their parents and society. The parents always having big dreams and an image of what they want their child to be. They plan for their child to become smart, with successful careers and they push their images on their kids always telling them to be the best, and scolding them for doing anything less. There is also a lot of expectation that comes from society, the main one being gender roles. Society puts an expectation on people based on gender. If you are a male you are supposed to be strong, masculine, …show more content…
On this particular day, Andy is going on a hunting trip with her father, his friend Charlie Spreun and Charlie’s son Mac. It is not unusual for Andy to go on hunting trips with her father but it is applied that it is her first time going hunting with Charlie and his son Mac. Charlie can’t seem to understand why Andy was going along on the hunting trip and he didn’t really want her there, say things like “I don’t understand why she is coming”, and “she’ll just add to the noise and get tired besides” (1). Charlie 's spoon felt this way because of society gender roles. In charlie 's eye, Andy shouldn’t like going hunting, fishing, and shooting. To Charlie, the wood was to “get away from the house and the old lady” (5), the wood was a place “Where the woman don’t go” (5). For Charlie, Andy was breaking every gender role that he knew by coming on the trip. aWhile Andy didn’t live up to her gender roles, Connie did. Connie was the average fifteen-year-old girl: She didn’t get along with her mother, loved to hang with her friends, going to the mall, movies, occasionally across the street to a burger shake that was crowded by older boys and how pretty she was. Connie was the typical girly girl fitting perfectly into her gender roles. Her favored thing out of all the thing she loved was her looks. That was all she knew. Whenever she thought of herself in the moment she alway knew that “she was pretty and that was everything” (1). Connie’s mother would watch her “craning her neck to glance into mirrors” (1), and would always say "Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you 're so pretty" (1). Connie didn’t think she was pretty she knew that she was. Being pretty was everything. Because of this, she never realized that Arnold Friend was no friend at