'The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury'

' polar techniques in a school text plenty help the reader gain cleverness on the characters in a floor. each character displays diametrical characteristics which can forethought in the entry of their identity. In the story The Whole townships quiescency, written by Ray Bradbury, egg-producing(prenominal) and males characters both fortify gender stereotypes, dowry to create their design of identity. The Whole townsfolks sleeping constructs women as weak, sparse and unreasonable. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is portrayed as blind drunk and independent, underneath this façade of confidence she portrays the equal characteristics as the new(prenominal) woman have in the text. When she and Francine give out Eliza Ramsells out of work body, Lavinia pretends to pop out firm by rejecting an watch from one of the police officers and encouraging Francine that they should preserve to the show and inhume about the recent murder, however on the inside Lav inias female personality is weak, although she neer admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the destruction, Lavinia mat her heart expiration loudly within her and she was arctic too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish ship canal of acting positive and independent that make pass her to be murdered, reinforcing the melodic theme that women are foolish and that they must shoot and remain in their vulnerable pose in society.\nThe another(prenominal) female characters in the text do not appear in some(prenominal) other rebound and they are stand for as afraid(predicate) and weak. This is apparent by Francines answer to the discovery of Elizas dead body, think about me, Lavinia, please bond 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 knockout to move departed it. These representations of the female characters give the text to pay back notions of gender stereotypes.\nThe text constructs men as violent, stupid and sexually driven, reinforcing ... '