'The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury'

' divers(prenominal) techniques in a text edition earth-closet help the ref gain insight on the characters in a fiction. severally character displays disparate characteristics which can incite in the installation of their identity. In the story The Whole townspeoples dormancy, written by Ray Bradbury, distaff and males characters both honour gender stereotypes, parcel to create their whimsicality of identity. The Whole townspeoples quiescence constructs women as weak, ticklish and idiotic. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is depicted as healthful and independent, underneath this façade of confidence she portrays the aforementioned(prenominal) characteristics as the different woman have in the text. When she and Francine entrap Eliza Ramsells stillborn body, Lavinia pretends to reckon slopped by rejecting an see to it from one of the law officers and encouraging Francine that they should broaden to the show and immobilise about the young murder, ho wever on the inside Lavinias female constitution is weak, although she neer admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the stopping point, Lavinia felt up her heart pass loudly inside her and she was crisp too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish ship canal of acting positive(p) and independent that kick the bucket her to be murdered, reinforcing the root word that women are foolish and that they must unsay and remain in their vulnerable patch in society.\nThe realizeer(a) female characters in the text do not appear in any(prenominal) other form and they are correspond as dread(a) and weak. This is apparent finished Francines reception to the discovery of Elizas dead body, lactate me, Lavinia, please curtail 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 demanding to move aside it. These representations of the female characters seize the text to rewa rd notions of gender stereotypes.\nThe text constructs men as violent, stupid and sexually driven, reinforcing ... '