The Theme of American Literature in the Early 20th Century

The United States, like all other societies, places women and men unequally at different levels. In other words, society plays an important role in shaping the roles of men and women. Many writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez used their emotion and thought about discriminative power between women and men to compose stories or poems that contain great meaning. Masculinity and femininity are considered as products of a larger social or institutional presence so the power between women and men has been complex and becoming the critical issue towards every individual as well as political society.

Society creates the culture, rules, and the roles for each individual in different ways for different gender. Gender is not considered as the personal trait but it means the difference of socialized aspects between masculinity and femininity. One was born to be a man or another one was born to be a woman. They are still people but they position themselves within this society in different ways. Many theorists believe that an inequality between women and men is the outcome of how structure of society works. For example, in the story named Of Love and Other Demons of the writer Marquez, Sierva Maria is a twelve-year-old girl and has a loveless childhood with black slaves because her parents reject her. Although she lives with slaves, because she is white, she cannot join in the society. Society shaped her in painful life with bad memories because of discrimination. “He had never seen her take a step, and her walk had the same ease and grace as her dancing. He had never seen her in any clothes but an inmate's cassock, and the regal gown gave her a maturity and elegance that revealed how much of a woman she had already become” (Marquez, 78). That is the way society treated her badly even she desired a better lives. Also, she falls in love with the priest, Father Cayetano but at the end, Cayetano left her alone and she died in her prison cell. What is the main reason that they...