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Stereotypes In I Heart Hollywood

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CHAPTER 4:
CONCLUSION

This study is about finding the gender roles and stereotypes that was available in the novel I Heart Hollywood by Lindsey Kelk. As a conclusion, gender roles and stereotypes are two things that cannot be separated from the people in the world. Generally the gender role is related to what the identity of an individual is presented in the society while gender stereotype is something that is related with unfair judgement towards a group of people.
In this novel, many gender roles and stereotypes are found in the four characters which are Angela, Alex, Jenny and James. All of them are given a creative feature from the writer that makes the readers attracted and interested to read the novel. Based on the study also, all of …show more content…

Since the study is focused on the gender stereotypes of the four characters, the results that can be found are based on the four basic types of stereotypes. The types are personality traits, occupations, domestic behaviours and physical appearances. Most of the gender stereotypes in the novel are from the personality traits of the characters which are Angela, Alex, Jenny and James. There are also gender stereotypes of other type been highlighted in the novel but not explained in details about it. The characters that got the most gender stereotypes are Angela and James. Angela is a woman who has a job in the big city as a blogger for The Look magazine while James is a British actor in the Hollywood. Both of the characters are shown to have more stereotypes than the others because they were the attentions in the novel. Angela is been stereotyped as a modern career woman who work for big company in Manhattan who is also love beauty. She is describe as not too pretty as a woman but still have the charming side of her that make people interested in her. Even though she already had a boyfriend, she is also been stereotyped to be a normal woman that have crush on James who is the actor that she need to interview. She was also thinking of having his babies. It is true that woman imagination is wild and broad but they are just imagining of having something not like

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