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This paper presents a critical analysis of the selected passages from Anita Shreve’s novel All He Ever Wanted (2003), concerning various roles performed by women. These (social) roles are manipulated by men for their own interests and aims, assuming women incapable and incompetent who are negatively portrayed through their associated roles. People strive to acquire the dominant roles and, in this race, men always precede. The pendulum hanging over the point of gender loses equilibrium, becomes awry, and tilts to men’s half. Eagly and Wood’s (2012) Social Role Theory, which is mainly related to role-oriented concerns of a person, has provided theoretical underpinnings for the study. Females, on the basis of their so-called weaker and inferior social status, are entrusted such roles which identify them to be ‘women’. Relevant ideas of prominent scholars have been given in the form of literature review which unmasks the enigma of women with the result that patriarchal society does not allow women to perform important roles which are thought to be reserved for men only. The data has been analyzed through Fairclough’s (1989) threedimensional model (CDA). The authors have tried to unveil how various linguistic patterns contribute to social structures, thereby creating space for highlighting the injustices and demerits in a social system. The paper is concluded with the rationale that women’s debilitation is not given; it is rather the result of the resentment of men against them out of various negative ideologies associated with women on the basis of the roles that they perform in the capacity of ‘Women’.
Abdul Waheed Qureshi, Rab Nawaz Khan†. (2020) Pendulum Riders: An Analysis of Gender Positioning in Roles in Anita Shreve’s All He Ever Wanted, The Dialogue, Volume 15, Issue 1.
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