Flatland

Flatland Narrator The narrator of the story is a kind lawyer of the Square Class. He is married and has four pentagonal sons and two hexagonal grandsons. He was chosen by a sphere from Spaceland to help explain the wonders of the three dimensional world to the people of Flatland. He is a square living in a two-dimensional land and discovers that there are worlds other then his own like a third dimension. Not only …

…note that all the figures other then the lines are Male. Even if a female is born into a circle family it is still a line with no opportunity for upward movement. On the other hand, it is the Law of Nature that a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation has the opportunity to move up on the scale of development and to join the noble class.