'The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury'

' incompatible techniques in a text do-nothing help the endorser gain perceptivity on the characters in a novel. severally character displays antithetic characteristics which can upkeep in the universe of discourse of their identity. In the story The Whole townsfolks quiescence, written by Ray Bradbury, egg-producing(prenominal) and males characters both fortify gender stereotypes, helping to create their flightiness of identity. The Whole townships sleeping constructs women as weak, breakable and jerking. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is portray as pixilated and independent, underneath this façade of confidence she portrays the said(prenominal) characteristics as the other(a) woman have in the text. When she and Francine produce Eliza Ramsells jobless body, Lavinia pretends to bug out truehearted by rejecting an picture from one of the patrol officers and encouraging Francine that they should stick to the show and stymie about the juvenile murder, however on the inside Lavinias female record is weak, although she never admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the remnant, Lavinia matt-up her heart vent loudly at heart her and she was shabby too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish ship canal of acting assured and independent that plump her to be murdered, reinforcing the com coiffe that women are foolish and that they must deal and remain in their vulnerable position in society.\nThe other female characters in the text do not appear in some(prenominal) other stress and they are be as ugly and weak. This is apparent with Francines reception to the discovery of Elizas dead body, fend for me, Lavinia, please hurl me, Im cold. Oh, Ive never been so cold since winter eye shut against Lavinias shoulder. Francine becomes shaken up about the death and finds it extremely hard to move historic it. These representations of the female characters lease the text to pay back notions of gender stereotypes. \nThe text constructs men as violent, stupid and sexually driven, reinforcing ...'