Monday, April 7, 2014
In Rufus at the Door and Agatha McGee the two main authority characters are portrayed as women who show many masculine traits throughout the story. They use these masculine traits to hold power over the other characters in the stories. This, however, is contradicting because they are women and women are not supposed to be holding the power over the men. On the other hand, in Dodger's Return Ross struggles with showing his masculine traits and power even though he is a husband and these traits are expected of him. Hassler uses symbolism throughout these three stories to show how these characters portray and struggle with power.
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I really like your ideas for this paper, they are very similar to mine own! I like how you pointed out the symbolism that is threaded into each of these stories, but be sure to use specific examples to show this. Try to find symbols in each one that pin point how masculinity makes one powerful in the life of these stories. You could maybe even turn and look at Hassler and try to explain how his own beliefs on power are centered around masculine traits. Maybe try to even point out the bias he has from being a male. Ross in Dodger's return is a good example of how a man, the one who is stereo typically supposed to hold the power, is powerless because he exchanges masculine traits for feminine ones. Overall nice thesis and really good ideas:)
ReplyDeleteLike Shaena and you.. and almost everyone else I also had the same thoughts on the three stories! The masculine traits of the women and the feminine one in the Ross in Dodger are very easy to see and will be very easy to write about and go into detail for. I like your idea to add the symbolism in with it and your thesis is very straight forward to me, which is good. Great job! :)
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