Gender stereotypes have always been apart of society either through construct, and communication. We see these stereotypes in “Day Star” by Rita Dove, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy. Day Star by Rita Dove is about a mother who felt trapped in her life as a stay at home mother, who just wants to daydream in the sun. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is about a mother trying to give her young daughter advise on how not to be a “slut” and how to keep a man. “Barbie Girl” by Marge Peircy was about a smart young lady who did not look how society wanted her to look so she cut off her lgs and nose her biggest features according to society around her, and died.
Day Star by Rita Dove is an about a woman that feel trapped as …show more content…
She tells her daughter how to do household chores like laundry, sewing, ironing, cooking, setting the table, sweeping, and cleaning. The mother seem to think that if she doesn’t say something to her daughter that she will be a slut,but as the mother talks to her daughter she starts to sound angry and frustrated. Her daughter keeps trying to re insure her mother that she will not become a slut and will be able to keep a good relationship. I believe because of the mothers past that is hinted about when she said she can make abortion elixirs, shows that her fear is that he daughter would be a “slut” just like she was. This poem implies that if a woman cant cook, clean, and do household work that she wont be able to keep a man and will be a …show more content…
In today’s society stereotypes of a woman are that they must cook, clean, and take care of the children and their husbands contently. These characteristics of what society thinks a woman should be are based of mans idea of what a woman should be, but fail to realize that not all women are the same. Some women do not have a problem spending the day with the baby and cooking dinner for her husband, but more modernized women are throwing that idea away. Some households are equestrian, which means that everything is split in half. The woman and man equally share responsibilities such as paying bills, cooking/eating out, and watching the
Day Star by Rita Dove is an about a woman that feel trapped as …show more content…
She tells her daughter how to do household chores like laundry, sewing, ironing, cooking, setting the table, sweeping, and cleaning. The mother seem to think that if she doesn’t say something to her daughter that she will be a slut,but as the mother talks to her daughter she starts to sound angry and frustrated. Her daughter keeps trying to re insure her mother that she will not become a slut and will be able to keep a good relationship. I believe because of the mothers past that is hinted about when she said she can make abortion elixirs, shows that her fear is that he daughter would be a “slut” just like she was. This poem implies that if a woman cant cook, clean, and do household work that she wont be able to keep a man and will be a …show more content…
In today’s society stereotypes of a woman are that they must cook, clean, and take care of the children and their husbands contently. These characteristics of what society thinks a woman should be are based of mans idea of what a woman should be, but fail to realize that not all women are the same. Some women do not have a problem spending the day with the baby and cooking dinner for her husband, but more modernized women are throwing that idea away. Some households are equestrian, which means that everything is split in half. The woman and man equally share responsibilities such as paying bills, cooking/eating out, and watching the