Gender Stereotypes In Boys And Girls And The Yellow Wall-Paper

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Gender stereotyping has been a part of society forever. Between Alice Munro’s, “Boys and Girls” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” there are several instances of gender stereotyping. Gender stereotyping can affect men or women, but more commonly this negatively affects women (Pavlova et al. 13). The female characters in both writings are depicted as a weaker less capable sex than men. Both writings depict gender stereotypes through the dialogue they use belittling the women, creating a sense that women need to do less physically exerting tasks, and the actions taken by both main characters. In both, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and “Boys and Girl’s” the men look down upon the main girls in the story. The setting of, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” takes place in the wife’s thoughts. The husband does not listen to anything the wife has to say. The husband is shown belittling his wife when he begins making her take schedule prescriptions, making her take mandatory naps, and calling her names such as “little girl” (131-137). …show more content…
He attempts to not allow her to write, makes her nap, and she is mostly confined to the bedroom. In Alice Munro’s, “Boys and Girls” the daughter faces the challenge of, based on the job of skinning foxes, living in a time where a girl should be in the house working, not outside. She is shamed by her mother for following around the father more than being in the house, so she is not just being stereotyped by men but also another woman. In the end, reality finally hits the main character when her father says, “She’s only a girl” and she does not even protest (Munro 166). Even the girl facing gender stereotyping begins to believe in the stereotypes
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