Shout Dagoberto Gilb Analysis

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In today's society, stereotyping is a very typical thing people do. It’s normal for us to
stereotype because we need to figure someone out quickly or we find ourselves lazy. We
assume we can find out who individuals truly are by the simple things they say or do. A major
disadvantage of stereotyping is not being able to know someone for who they really are. In the
story "Shout" written by Dagoberto Gilb, we are introduced to an unnamed Hispanic male who is
a stressed, hard-working husband and father who puts his family’s needs above his longing for
tranquility and relaxation. After a grueling day at work, the protagonist, longing for peace and
quiet, finds himself in a screaming engagement with his family and neighbor. The unnamed …show more content…

In the moment of revealing her pregnancy could
have opened the door for his anger, but he chose to be intimate with his wife. At the closing of
the story, he decides to take another shower in which “His breath sputtered and noises hopped
from his throat”, which tells us that he is fighting back emotion and maybe even a few tears
(Gilb 543). In the end, even though he loses his cool and might slip some regretful words out,
he's just a man that's sympathetic and emotional.

The unnamed protagonist of "Shout" expresses himself as one who is an estranged and
jobless individual, but, is truly a hard-working man who is devoted to his wife and kids; his
attitude also comes off as a crude, unapologetic angry man, but he really is a sympathetic,
emotional man. Even though the unnamed man exemplifies attitudes and actions that appear to
define him as a hostile and inebriated man, we now know that deep down he shows that he is a
devoted husband and father that cares very much for his family. We can't always decide who
people are just by the things they say or do. We must dig, on a more extensive level, to uncover
who they truly

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