Gender Roles In Mercha And Talia's Family

In this movie, two families identified by their mother’s, Mercha and Talia, live in their own summer homes in Argentina’s scorching sun and tropical rain. This film focuses on social statuses and gender roles in the family as well as the servants that work for them. The children represent the future and cultural descendants of Mercha’s and Talia’s family and have certain expectations for their specific genders. In the beginning of the story, daughters of Mercha shop for clothes for the boys while the boys played in the streets. Later on, the boys went out hunting and spending their time having fun like speaking to fans while the girls usually stayed at home helping the mom with chores or laying around with the mother. This shows that males and females have been placed in a category by socializing agents like their family, friends, and parents and were shown what their gender was expected to do. The opening scenes of when Mercha carried wine glasses and slips on the ground cutting herself, shows how women were viewed by others as material wealth in family as only her children raised an alarm and took her to the hospital. Mecha hints that the “native servants” are stealing the towels as lucia hands her a towel. To be a woman in Mecha’s society is rough but to be an …show more content…
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