As Charles Dickens once stated in Great Expectations “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but- I hope- into a better shape.” Gender stereotype was and still is an issue and people expect that the role of a woman should be based on what society perceive them to be. In life, every great expectation has an unexpected approach and “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston and “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros both demonstrates this approach through gender roles/ stereotype.
In sweat, Delia was the typical definition of a nice woman because she was a stay at home wife that did everything to provide for herself. Throughout the story, there were many instances …show more content…
Also, his judgement states that her destiny is to become someone’s wife than her own person. Being in a family where you are the only daughter should be different, in the fact that, you should get different or “special treatments”. However, Cisneros’ father didn’t think of her as his only daughter but more like another child. The story says that when she was in the fifth grade, she had told her father that she wanted to attend college and his remarks were “Que Bueno, mi’ha, that’s good” (Cisneros, NP). In today’s society, nothing more is pleasing to a girl than to get her father’s blessings on what she wants to do in life. However, if your father only believes that you are not worth an actual education but just the title of being someone’s wife, is quite …show more content…
He had told her that she had “wasted all that education” (Cisneros, NP). As a not so much young child but still a young daughter, Cisneros felt as if her father did not care about what she wanted to do with her life. Due to this unsatisfactory performance from her father, she was able to use all her thoughts of not being seen as nothing more but a school teacher from her father and channel it into a work of art. At the end, she saw her father for the first time in years and gave him one of her writings to read. At that moment, after her father read her work and acknowledged the parts that should have a certain reaction, she finally felt that she was good in the eyes of her father when he asked if there were any more copies for the rest of the
In sweat, Delia was the typical definition of a nice woman because she was a stay at home wife that did everything to provide for herself. Throughout the story, there were many instances …show more content…
Also, his judgement states that her destiny is to become someone’s wife than her own person. Being in a family where you are the only daughter should be different, in the fact that, you should get different or “special treatments”. However, Cisneros’ father didn’t think of her as his only daughter but more like another child. The story says that when she was in the fifth grade, she had told her father that she wanted to attend college and his remarks were “Que Bueno, mi’ha, that’s good” (Cisneros, NP). In today’s society, nothing more is pleasing to a girl than to get her father’s blessings on what she wants to do in life. However, if your father only believes that you are not worth an actual education but just the title of being someone’s wife, is quite …show more content…
He had told her that she had “wasted all that education” (Cisneros, NP). As a not so much young child but still a young daughter, Cisneros felt as if her father did not care about what she wanted to do with her life. Due to this unsatisfactory performance from her father, she was able to use all her thoughts of not being seen as nothing more but a school teacher from her father and channel it into a work of art. At the end, she saw her father for the first time in years and gave him one of her writings to read. At that moment, after her father read her work and acknowledged the parts that should have a certain reaction, she finally felt that she was good in the eyes of her father when he asked if there were any more copies for the rest of the