The book “Birdsong” by Sebastian Faulks, demonstrates the advantages of being a man while showing how detrimental to be a woman thus lending itself as an anti-feminist text. At the beginning of the book, Lisette, who is Monsieur Azaire’s daughter, begins by “tell[ing] a story of her day at school. The story concerned a prank played by one girl on another, but Lisette’s telling of it contained a second level. It was as though she recognized the childish nature of what she said and wanted to intimate to Stephan and her parents that she was too grown-up for such things”(Faulks 6). Lisette who is a 16-year-old girl is clearly infantilized by her elders. She tries to demonstrate to her family that she is mature, but nevertheless she is treated as
