Gender Role In The Movie Will

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Throughout the movie, Will is portrayed as a complex individual with many desires, his gender role seems to be the least of his concern. As the movie progresses Will learns to understand his gender role with the aid of the individuals surrounding him. In the early stages of the movie, Will is seen as a hopeless & single individual with a aspiration of interacting with single mothers. When Christine & John approach Will asking him to be the godfather of their child, Repetition expresses Will’s horrific emotions in the phrase ‘You know me. I'll drop her at her christening, I'll forget her birthdays until her 18th, I'll take her out.. it's a very, very bad choice’. Will demonstrates that he is unable to move on from his bachelor life and take

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