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Societal Expectations of Men
"YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL"
"I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack." -Stanley
"MAN UP!"
"BE A MAN"
Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s. (Stage direction, Scene one)
"The man of the house"
How does this connect to the play?
How does this connect to the play?
Stanley was used as a way to address certain issues in this time period. Literature/media in the late 1940s, early 1950s created this false sense of the "perfect American family" and displayed men as a way of power and control over the household.