Gender Roles: Describe the gender roles in "A Rose for Emily" and "Papas Waltz" in their respective stories.

For many years society has embraced the idea that the difference between men and women were biologically determined. Thou through traditions, media, and peers we act accordingly to how others view us. Each individual has pressure placed upon them based on their gender. Our sex is determined by genetics while our gender is programmed by social customs. Some theories interpret that a women is tender and a loving mother while on the other hand men …

…suppose internalize it as parts of our identity, we then can put aside the old gender roles and how they were viewed, such as the image of the everyday man who will work hard then go off to the nearest tavern to drink the night away before he spends time with family, or the print of a lonely woman, left only to fend for herself in a society that says, for her, it is impossible.