Anna In The Tropics Gender Roles

In the play “Anna in the Tropics” the idea of gender roles is seen without being mentioned throughout the play. For example, Anna in the Tropics uses the idea of gender roles in the way in which females take the role a man would normally take. However, when reading through the play roles are played in many ways. However, I believe that when reading this play the reader must read and understand the play with an open mind for the opposite sex as at times he and or she does a task that can be difficult for the opposite sex. Anna in the tropics, in my opinion, is a play that can provide an excellent insight into how women can do the same things men can or are expected to do. For example, Ofelia is the wife of Santiago, who is the owner of the

However, in their marriage, there is a role that is at times speculated to be done by the man or any male in all relatively. This one roll was the affair that Palomo was having in the cigar factory. After Conchita had been made aware of these events she had come up with an idea that if her husband could partake in the act of infidelity so could she. On the other hand, for any person who has not read and or reached the part in which Conchita speaks about partaking in this act one might ask who is she planning on fornicating with. Well, Conchita partook in this act with Juan Julian the new lector hired by Ofelia to read to the factory workers while they rolled cigars. This gender role is not like Ofelia and Santiago’s because Conchita and Palomo are both complying with the duties seen fit for their “role” as a man and women. Although Conchita and Palomo might end up with a confusing marriage or sad ending they are under the normal stance of their roles. Since Palomo does provide for their marriage except in the part where he is having an affair but he doesn’t leave Conchita on her own to provide for their