The Narrative

Jacques EpangueEnglish 101, 9M2 Professor Rolando JorifSpring 2013 The history In About Men, by Gretel Ehrlich, the author describes cowboys like workforce who seem to have trouble communicating with and relating to women, yet cling to an young dependency on women to take care of them. This trouble of communication with women chiffonier be perceived by others as a sign of helplessness even a lack of virility. However, according to Ehrlich it may be because of diachronic and geographical factors.Cowboys who are mostly from the South kept that chivalrousness and strict economys of whiteness when the came to the Wyoming. This is why men would show a stand-offish and respectful attitude similitude the women. Also, due to the geographical vastness of the North, cowboys often work where there is no human beings or women. He is physically and socially isolated which put up emotional evolution seem impossible. Therefore, if it happened that he feels something for a woman, he would have trouble communicating because he is not use to the code of seduction that average people know.And yet, dancing wildly all darkness becomes a metaphor for the explosive emotions pent up inside, and when these are, on occasion, released, theyre so battery-charged and potent that one caress of the face of one I go to sleep you will peal for a long while. The attempt of the author to apologise why the American cowboy prevails to be rather reserved when it comes to reach a woman squares well with her painting of his personality.Keep in mind that the place of her writing is to reveal the complex nature of the American cowboy, so she tries to show how the stamp of the cowboy does not reflect the reality. This man who is normally thought of as a humbled and tough individual, is not just now full of manliness, besides has his own kind of femininity reflected in his altruism, alone also in his relationship with women, characterized by what the author names Those contradiction s of the flavor between respectability, logic and convention on the one hand, and impulse, passion, and intuition on the other.In fact the author stands that cowboys are vulnerable too, and according to her and Ted Hoagland No one is as fragile as a woman but no one is as fragile as a man. The stereotype of the manly and macho cowboy is subject of uncertainly since we read Gretel Ehrlich. agree to her, the image of American cowboy paints by media does not match the reality.Base on her own experience in the Wyoming she describes the American cowboy as a man with a complex nature, a combination of masculinity and femininity. The American cowboy is certainly strong and silent, or a rugged individualist, but not in the perverted way the media tend to show us. And if he looks evasive with women it is not because he is tough, but because he is missing the code of seduction, the vocabulary to express the complexity of what they feel.