In the short story Drown, Junot Daz paints a world of many conflicts which our main character must face. Daz delicately navigates the main character through the conflicts of men being masculine, women being inferior, and not having any positive influences in his life. The story portrays men as being masculine by the possessions he owns, his education and his authority level. It also shows us that women are inferior to men because several of the women in the story must rely on someone other than themselves. Lastly, not having any positive influences in ones life makes it very difficult to find yourself and your meaning in the world.
The main characters masculinity is questioned several times and in different ways; masculinity by possession, education and authority. When Dazs main character is approached by an army recruiter who thinks he is the man of all men because he owns A house, a car, a gun, and a wife, he questions the main characters masculinity by asking if he possessed any of those things (100). After having to come to terms with not having any of the possession that so-called made you a man, the main characters masculinity is again questioned, but this time about the depth and future of his education. His teacher, who is displayed as a wealthy, well-educated man, compares the class to shuttles (106). He emphasizes that, A few of them would make it, and those few were considered orbiters. However, the majority of them would burn out and go nowhere. He knew then he was going nowhere, losing altitude, and quickly fading back to earth (106). He was quickly realizing that not only did he not possess the things that made him a man, but now another man, who had it all figured out, shattered his idea of masculinity. While struggling with his now tainted ideas of masculinity, the main characters father portrays his masculinity by authority when he puts his son in his place by slapping him down when disrespecting his mother (106).
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