Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Education six years after the original date six years after the original date In the short story ‘Six Years After’ written by Katherine Mansfield. There are many stereotypes (mostly aimed at men) and role-playing (played by men). When it comes to men and women, men are always the ones taking care of things or being ridiculed. In this essay I will prove that role-playing is what the author is trying to point out as the key theme in this short story. The steward plays the role of a host type of character. He was doing everything he could do in his power to make this couple as comfortable as possible. He went out of his way to put up chairs where there was available shelter, and tried to place them in a spot with the least amount of smell as possible. Another example of role-playing in this novel is when the Husband goes to tip the steward for his excellent work. The husband’s wife tries to tell him what kind of money he should tip the steward, but the husband just listens and tips what he thought the steward should get. This is a classic example of the man being in charge as the man of the house. The man has to show everybody that he is in charge and what he does goes. After the husband tips the steward, he asks his wife if she thinks that is a good tip. The wife simply agrees. When the wife does this it reinforces the husband’s ego of being the one in charge. On the third page of this story, the wife makes fun of her husband by telling him that his hat makes her snicker. She tells him that he looks like a burglar. obviously he was not very amused. He tries to justify his hat by telling her that the hat that he was wearing is one of the best hats he has ever owned. He also mentions that the hat had very rich white satin lining. He believed that this was the hats better attribute. He then took off his hat and then made her touch the lining. Regardless of the fact that the hat made his wife snicker, he turns the conversation around and tries to convince her that the hat is nice. That is lined with very rich white satin. Surely it must be good! “how often had she rubbed between finger and thumb his coat, his shirt cuff, tie, sock, linen handkerchief” this quote shows that the husband is always doing this when his wife makes a comment about something. He always tries to convince her that in fact the object is good. The last example I found of role-playing starts on the fourth page, when the wife starts thinking of her future son having nightmares and how she plays the role of the mother in trying to calm the child. The child tends to always have terrible dreams, in which the he calls his mom but his mom doesn’t hear him and he dies. She finds her self worrying more about her son that herself. All mothers are guilty of this. And this is exactly what this woman does. The women shows maternal feelings here, because women have it in them to have feelings toward the child that they gave birth to. As one can see role-playing is an abundant theme in this short story, it is seen everywhere for example it is seen when the husband tips the steward and shows everyone that he is the man of the house and he decides what goes on. Or when is wife tells him that hat makes him look life a burglar, and turns the conversation around and tries to justify his is actually a really nice hat, it has satin lining. Bibliography: Word Count: 627
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