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Gender bias/difference noted in select literature:
Hints about writing an intro. for a discussion of short stories in terms of gender bias:
1. Tell the readers that short fiction is a genre that conveys emotion through conflict.
2. The story will be told uniquely by each author.
3. It concerns itself with personal feelings about a subject.
4. When looked at individually, a “gender bias” can be seen.
5. Different sexes will relate material and relate to material in a different fashion.
6. Provide a thesis for this assignment that deals with our two poems, its two authors, and its different treatment of subject matter that reflect a difference in gender and the handling of emotion.
NOTES ON “CAT IN THE RAIN”—Written by Ernest Hemingway, a male.
1. Told from a third-person point of view—like a camera lens.
2. Description is sparse—bleak, simple—periodic sentences. (Subject – verb)
3. A war monument is depicted in the midst of a garden.
4. Husband and wife are cold, sterile. She is “the American wife”
5. She is receiving little attention from husband—he is preoccupied with reading/alone.
6. She is interested in a cat out in the rain and will go and look for it.
7. He will go—but rather reluctantly.
8. She is fascinated by the hotel-keeper: his description is cold, serious, mature, odd—she likes his demeanor about facing his work. She likes his “big hands.”
9. When she returns—she begins to act more feminine—but husband doesn’t care.
10. She vents about what she wants—a cat, longer hair, romantic dining, and fine things.
11. The husband wants her to be quiet and read with him. The cat is brought to the room at the request of the hotel-keeper.
NOTES ON “SWEAT”—Written by Zora Neale Hurston, a female.
1. Delia works hard cleaning laundry for the “white folks.”
2. Her husband, Sykes, plays a nasty trick on her by putting what she thinks is a snake in her laundry basket of clothes.
3. He thinks it’s funny—she is deathly afraid of snakes.
4. After calming down, she notices that the item that scared her is the bullwhip used to drive his team of mules home.
5. We then learn that he detests her cleaning clothes for “white folks,” but she reminds him that this is how his belly has been filled all these 15 years.
6. We also learn that there is another girl, younger and prettier that has come into the relationship. We also learn that he has run off on her before and even beaten her.
7. But Delia has become strong—perhaps through the help of Church.
8. We learn from the men-folk that Sykes is no good, tearing women down and moving on. Now he’s working on a new gal—Bertha—who has been in town 3 months, and he has been paying her room charge.
9. He finally moved a huge rattlesnake in a box into the house. Delia asks him to remove it, but he refuses. She confesses her hatred for him and confesses that she has had enough of his physical and mental abuse.
10. One night when Delia stays longer at church to witness a “Love Feast” service—Sykes lets the snake loo ...
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"The Leader of the People"
from The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
On Saturday afternoon Billy Buck, the ranch-hand, raked together the last of the old year's
haystack and pitched small forkfuls over the wire fence to a few mildly interested cattle. High in
the air small clouds like puffs of cannon smoke were driven eastward by the March wind. The
wind could be heard whishing in the brush on the ridge crests, but no breath of it penetrated
down into the ranch cup.
The little boy, Jody, emerged from the house eating a thick piece of buttered bread. He saw Billy
working on the last of the haystack. Jody tramped down scuffing his shoes in the way he had
been told was destructive to a good shoe-leather. A flock of white pigeons flew out of the black
cypress tree as Jody passed, and circled the tree and landed again. A half-grown tortoise- shell
cat leaped from the bunkhouse porch, galloped on stiff legs across the road, whirled and galloped
back again. Jody picked up a stone to help the game along, but he was too late, for the cat was
under the porch before the stone could be discharged. He threw the stone into the cypress tree
and started the white pigeons on another whirling flight.
Arriving at the used-up haystack, the boy leaned against the barbed wire fence. "Will that be all
of it, do you think?" he asked.
The middle-aged ranch-hand stopped his careful raking and stuck his fork into the ground. He
took off his black hat and smoothed down his hair. "Nothing left of it that isn't soggy from
ground moisture," he said. He replaced his hat and rubbed his dry leathery hands together.
"Ought to be plenty mice," Jody suggested.
"Lousy with them," said Billy. "Just crawling with mice."
"Well, maybe, when you get all through, I could call the dogs and hunt the mice."
"Sure, I guess you could," said Billy Buck. He lifted a forkful of the damp ground-hay and threw
it into the air. Instantly three mice leaped out and burrowed frantically under the hay again.
Jody sighed with satisfaction. Those plump, sleek, arrogant mice were doomed. For eight months
the had lived and multiplied in the haystack. they had been immune from cats, from traps, from
poison and from Jody. they had grown smug in their security, over bearing and fat. Now the time
of disaster had come; they would not survive another day.
Billy looked up at the top of the hills that surrounded the ranch. "Maybe you better ask you
father before you do it," he suggested.
"Well, where is he? I'll ask him now."
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"He rode up to the ridge ranch after dinner. He'll be back pretty soon."
Jody slumped against the fence post. "I don't think he'd care."
As Billy went back to his work he said ominously, "You'd better ask him anyway. You know
how he is."
Jody did know. His father, Carl Tiflin, insisted upon giving permission for anything that was
done on the ranch, whether it was important or not. Jody sagged father against ...
2. It was the time that summer was leavening
and fall was coming .the famer or Bailey
like when it happens ,he whistled as he
drove a very cold wind flew across his face .
Then it happen a thump
He thought he hit a deer and found out it
was human .
3. Mr. Bailey toke the stranger home. He help
him inside, his wife made him comfortable on
a sofa .their daughter, Katy took a look in
room. She saw the stranger dress in leather
,also heard that he might be a lonely person
who lives in woods.
4. They called doctor to check the stranger .the
doctor told that he lost his memory there's a
bump on his head. Mrs. Bailey stop the doctor
that she forgot her thermometer .she said
that it was broken because the mercury is
stuck at bottom.
5. The famer let the stranger borrowed some
clothes. He was confused by the buttonholes
and buttons, after he put on the clothes . He
joined the baileys for dinner. He was
interested that the steam the hot soup went
up.
6. The next morning, Katy saw the stranger out
the house. he walk across the yard ,toward
two bunnies. They didn’t run into the woods,
they hopped toward him. He picked a bunny
petted a by the ears. And they hop way.
7. A week pass. famer bailey and the stranger
did farm work with a pitchfork . normal he
would have to take a rest. The stranger neve
got tired. Mr. bailey was surprise that he
smiled and work on and slow he grinned.
8. In the evening ,Katy sat with the stranger and
watch the geese in a v shape ,.the stranger
couldn't take off his eyes the flock of geese,
like he was hypnotized.
9. Six weeks later, The stranger has tears in his
eyes. They understood that he remember
who he is and walk out .the family ran but he
disappeared and said ‘’see you next fall’’
10. Six weeks later, The stranger has tears in his
eyes. They understood that he remember
who he is and walk out .the family ran but he
disappeared and said ‘’see you next fall’’