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I AM JACK'S CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
THE NARRATOR/JACK
Is
the quintessential modern day young professional male living within
a consumer society. Stuck somewhere between no longer being a
boy, but not yet truly a 'man', he struggles to uncover the defining
principles of what it is to be a man in this modern day and age
and find maturity. The defining characteristics of what was traditionally
considered to be the qualities inherent in a 'real' man are today
frowned upon by a society transformed by feminine ideology that
by nature is in opposition to that of it's masculine counter part.
"Culturally normative ideas of masculinity
are socially constructed sets of rules that govern male behaviors
… the masculinity that men enact has been developed and packaged
by our culture, which insists that men perform it. Men have been
conditioned to think that certain behavior is naturally masculine
…" (LEE). Aggressive behavior, mischief and sexual
desire are among the many hallmarks belonging to boys and men
alike that are frowned upon, instead replaced by a 'nesting instinct'
(GRONSTAD) fostered by corporations
that promote the 'domestication' of the male psyche and tells
them what they can desire. Therefore the modern man uses material
possessions to define himself, lusts after efficiently designed
Swedish furniture instead of women, and works for a large corporation
that would rather save money than protect the unsuspecting people
who buy their products.
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