Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, and Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, frequently portrays gender roles with distinct characteristics throughout characters behavior in both stories. Morrison details the brief, yet painful perception of beauty, Pecola, who is affected by her parent's domestic violence, is discriminated by her community, connects with the prostitutes who are also considered ugly and abhorrent. Pecola tends to obtain the beauty standard and happiness through the blue eyes in which dragged her into a mental illness. On the other hand, O’Brien focuses on the personal items each soldier carries and O'Brien's memories of Linda including his experience of the Vietnam War. Morrison and O’Brien throughout their novels gender roles
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Frieda who accidentally misinterpreted Miss Dunion about being ruined which for Frieda meant big and fat but in this case "the Maginot Line, she's ruined" (Morrison 100) according to the community is losing your purity and dignity, which led to a life without prosperity but for Pecola they were not prostitutes, she even considered them family because they were just like her, judge by the community. Women and girl are tough to stay pure until marriage. O'Brien shows more character traits on males and boys, he remembers Linda being mocked but he had a "reputation to think about" (O'Brien 233) because he is afraid of what people might say since boys do not defend girls in order to sustain their masculinity and hold the title of men. Morrison and O’Brien revealed the inequality of gender in the character backgrounds and surroundings based on the judgement and discrimination that led to the distinguish roles of the characters, and the ideal of beauty society …show more content…
Also, cycles of oppression can begin on the individual's background in which developed an abusive behavior or the absence of a role model. Based on both of the stories gender roles are going on through ages. Youngsters can begin getting to be plainly mindful of the contrasts among young ladies and young men based on the activities of the guardians and the idea of their condition. O’Brien focuses less on femininity and the lack of women’s presence in the war, since the author is a male there is more preference on male characters. Morrison demonstrates femininity mostly on young girls because of the influence in their surrounding and the obsession of beauty becomes
Frieda who accidentally misinterpreted Miss Dunion about being ruined which for Frieda meant big and fat but in this case "the Maginot Line, she's ruined" (Morrison 100) according to the community is losing your purity and dignity, which led to a life without prosperity but for Pecola they were not prostitutes, she even considered them family because they were just like her, judge by the community. Women and girl are tough to stay pure until marriage. O'Brien shows more character traits on males and boys, he remembers Linda being mocked but he had a "reputation to think about" (O'Brien 233) because he is afraid of what people might say since boys do not defend girls in order to sustain their masculinity and hold the title of men. Morrison and O’Brien revealed the inequality of gender in the character backgrounds and surroundings based on the judgement and discrimination that led to the distinguish roles of the characters, and the ideal of beauty society …show more content…
Also, cycles of oppression can begin on the individual's background in which developed an abusive behavior or the absence of a role model. Based on both of the stories gender roles are going on through ages. Youngsters can begin getting to be plainly mindful of the contrasts among young ladies and young men based on the activities of the guardians and the idea of their condition. O’Brien focuses less on femininity and the lack of women’s presence in the war, since the author is a male there is more preference on male characters. Morrison demonstrates femininity mostly on young girls because of the influence in their surrounding and the obsession of beauty becomes