The Narrative

Jacques EpangueEnglish 101, 9M2 Professor Rolando JorifSpring 2013 The Narrative In or so Men, by Gretel Ehrlich, the author describes cowboys deal men who reckon to have trouble oneself communicating with and relating to women, yet cling to an teenager dependency on women to take carry on of them. This trouble of communication with women can be perceived by new(prenominal)s as a sign of weakness even a lack of virility. However, according to Ehrlich it may be because of historical and geographical factors.Cowboys who are in general from the South kept that chivalrousness and strict codes of savor when the came to the Wyoming. This is why men would show a stand-offish and respectful attitude vis-a-vis the women. Also, overdue to the geographical vastness of the North, cowboys often make believe where there is no human beings or women. He is physically and socially unaffectionate which make emotional evolution seem impossible. Therefore, if it happened that he feels somet hing for a char, he would have trouble communicating because he is not use to the code of stemion that average people know.And yet, dancing wildly all night becomes a allegory for the explosive emotions pent up inside, and when these are, on occasion, released, theyre so battery-charged and potent that one flatter of the face of one I love you will peal for a big while. The attempt of the author to explain why the American cowboy tends to be quite reserved when it comes to seduce a cleaning lady squares well with her painting of his personality.Keep in reason that the purpose of her writing is to reveal the thickening nature of the American cowboy, so she tries to show how the sort out of the cowboy does not reflect the reality. This man who is usually aspect of as a rugged and knockout individual, is not only full of manliness, alone has his own kind of femininity reflected in his altruism, scarce also in his family with women, characterized by what the author names Those contradictions of the tit between respectability, logic and convention on the one hand, and impulse, passion, and intuition on the other.In fact the author stands that cowboys are vulnerable too, and according to her and Ted Hoagland No one is as fragile as a woman but no one is as fragile as a man. The stereotype of the manly and macho cowboy is subject of uncertainly since we read Gretel Ehrlich. According to her, the word-painting of American cowboy paints by media does not match the reality.Base on her own obtain in the Wyoming she describes the American cowboy as a man with a decomposable nature, a combination of masculinity and femininity. The American cowboy is certainly strong and mute, or a rugged individualistic, but not in the perverse way the media tend to show us. And if he looks evasive with women it is not because he is tough, but because he is missing the code of seduction, the expression to express the complexity of what they feel.