The society of every era has always established the accepted norm for the public, be it trends, traditions or stereotypes. Consequently, it is controversial whether these cultural aspects have contributed to inequality and absurd idealistic roles among all individuals. Over time, people have developed unrealistic assumptions about everyone they meet, which should be irrelevant and not imposed on anyone. One particular social group that has had to face these situations countless times are women. Society has culturally conditioned women to be weak, stupid, and ineffective individuals in anything except as housewives. This has given men the deciding factor on which part of the woman is essential; however, since there are different preferences, it also illustrates the past era where women played a lesser role in society no matter if they were furthering their education or career. This is demonstrated when the protagonist states: “He wasn't intelligent. In fact, he veered in the opposite direction. But I believed that under my guidance she would calm down” (Shulman 384). He considers her a stupid girl; he didn't even think about the fact that he and Polly were equally at the same level of education because they had both been accepted into the same college. If she wasn't as smart as she claims, he would never have met or seen her. The protagonist labeled her as unintelligent based on what he defined as intelligent, when in reality anyone can be brilliant in many different ways. Consequently, this work seeks to deem women incapable of being equivalent to men. When the protagonist states: “I fought a wave of despair. I was getting nowhere with this girl, absolutely nowhere” (Shulman 387). This shows how men had a weak sense towards women because they automatically represented them as stupid human beings and incapable of anything. At the same time, it is possible that she tries to sympathize with men because they had to put up with the woman's inabilities, which is evident throughout the world. Because they were considered fragile, dull and incompetent. These attitudes towards women have always been the norm of society and no one has ever thought it was wrong. Today, people would be shocked by how a woman was never recognized or how men lower their standards to see them face to face. Not only did women have to respect the distorted expectations of men, but they were considered simple people, incapable of anything and who only had to look
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