Genre
Non-fiction
Setting and Context
Written in the context of gender roles
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Enlightening and optimistic
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is Jake LaMotta
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between masculine women and the perception of patriarchal society. Masculine women are discriminated against by society.
Climax
The climax comes when the author concludes that masculine women must be recognized and respected by society.
Foreshadowing
The discrimination against masculine women has foreshadowed the outdated patriarchal attitudes.
Understatement
The strength of the masculine women in building a good society is understated.
Allusions
The story alludes to the challenges masculine women go through in society.
Imagery
The images of the bathrooms involve sight imagery. The author writes, “The bathroom is a domestic space beyond the home that comes to represent domestic order, or a parody of it, out in the world. The women’s bathroom accordingly becomes a sanctuary of enhanced femininity, a `little girl’s room' to which one retreats to powder one’s nose or fix one’s hair.”
Paradox
The main paradox is that society tolerates feminine men but discriminates against masculine women.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between the societal perception of masculine women and the patriarchal attitudes towards the female gender.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Discrimination against masculine women is incarnated as brutal.
