sts are viewed by the readers as chauvinistic pigs. Men who are so self-absorbed with themselves that they do not take into consideration the feelings and thoughts of anyone around them, including the females in their lives at the moment. These views of the readers’ are accomplished by the authors’ struggle to portray their female heroines in a positive manner, and thus their inability to portray their male protagonists as anything but the unsympathetic male chauvinist....
