'The Whole Town’s Sleeping by Ray Bradbury'

'Different techniques in a textual matterual matter jackpot process the reader gain ground insight on the sharpencases in a story. Each character reference displays different characteristics which can aid in the creation of their identity. In the story The altogether Towns Sleeping, indite by ray of light Bradbury, young-bearing(prenominal) and males characters two reinforce sex activity stereotypes, helping to form their nonion of identity. The altogether Towns Sleeping constructs wowork force as weak, fragile and ill-judged. Although the character of Lavinia Nebbs is portrayed as strong and autarkic, underneath this façade of assurance she portrays the same characteristics as the other(a) adult feminine featured in the text. When she and Francine discover Eliza Ramsells deceased body, Lavinia pretends to see strong by rejecting an escort from one and only(a) of the police officers and encouraging Francine that they should continue to the show and forget rough the recent murder, all the same on the interior Lavinias womanly nature is weak, although she neer admits it to her friends and when she reacts to the death, Lavinia felt her feel going obstreperously within her and she was rimy too.\nIronically, it is Lavinias foolish ways of playacting confident and independent that lead her to be murdered, reinforcing the idea that women argon foolish and that they mustiness accept and stick in their undefended position in society.\nThe other female characters in the text do not appear in any other form and they argon represented as fearful and weak. This is spare through Francines reaction to the find of Elizas dead body, Hold me, Lavinia, revel hold me, Im cold. Oh, Ive never been so cold since overwinter eyes closed against Lavinias shoulder. Francine becomes shaken up closely the death and finds it extremely difficult to break down past it. These representations of the female characters allow the text to reinforce n otions of sex stereotypes.\nThe text constructs men as violent, dense and sexually driven, reinforcing ... '