The Importance Of Gender Conflicts Literature To Society Past And Present

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when the war effort ended; thus our male dominated society sought once again to sentence them to the limited existence they lived before the war.
Gender conflict is not limited to females in our society. Men who seek to be house husbands or wish to take on the role of primary caretaker for the children, suffer the stigma society attaches to them as being too lazy to go out to support their families, or are viewed and possibly as effeminate homosexual  I have chosen three works in which gender conflict arises. Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"; Sophocles' "Antigone"; and McElroy's "My Fathers Wars". I include McElroy's poem because I felt it essential to show that despite the feminist belief that only they, as women, encounter gender discrimination, McElroy shows through her work that men encounter the same types of social stigmas when they attempt to cross the gender line as well.
William Faulkner was born Sept 25, 1897 to Murry C and Maud Butler Faulkner in New Albany ...

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is presumed to be 406 or 405 B. C.. (Brown 3-4) Unfortunately, my efforts to find biographical information on Colleen J. McElroy yielded no results. So I am limited only to the information provided by our textbook. It show Colleen McElroy's birth as 1935. The publication of her poem, "My Fathers Wars" was in 1984. Further, because of my inability to locate information on Ms. McElroy, I will have no professional criticism to cite in relations to her work. All interpretations are my own.
"A Rose for Emily"; probably Faulkner's best short story, is surely one of the most grim yet touching stories in all English literature...." (O'Connor p.68). O'Connor blames the severity of the ...

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