Literary Analysis: We Should All Be Feminist

Portraying the characters rejection to conformity, American literature illustrates the distinctive following of one's own standards. From what has been analyzed previously, the authors are trying to display a message of change through the characters words and actions. Many times it is apparent that the characters are in there times of most comfort when they are acting in such that makes them their own being, stepping aside from the standards of the rest of society. Writers try to express the importance of stepping outside of that comfort zone in order to grow and develop as a human being. How will one ever know who they are if they conform to be what everyone is told to be? The biggest advocate of rejecting the norms of America is Chris McCandless.

In the short story We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares what it is truly like to be a women in this

Through her powerful words she is able to speak to both men and women on how feminism is not art all what society labels it to be. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks the puissant words, “The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight if gender expectations (Adichie, 18:31).” These extremely powerful words are the basis for the beginning of the comprehension of why character’s resist the influence of conformity, yet the question as to how much one rejects societal norms and how this passion for nonconformity alters the minds of the authors and their characters conveyed. Unfortunately, this extreme drive we see can be altered into one’s own contorted ideals that in the end does not lead them in the right direction. Through the words of Dick Hickock, he evades conformity even to his very last breath. While on the gallows, he does the complete opposite of what you might expect a dead man to do. Instead, he shakes the hands of the men who captured him and says that he is going to a better world