Traditional roles of masculinity play a significant role in how many men experience their diagnosis with cancer. Pudrovska writes that “cancer poses a threat to the masculine identity because it entails lack of control over one's body and other consequences incompatible with traditional masculinity (Pudrovska 535) Arthur Frank’s narrative of his battle with colon cancer enforces the idea of cancer threatening traditional ideas of masculinity, particularly a lack of control over his body. Frank writes in great detail about death, and his fear of loosing control over his body within the narrative. Specifically, Frank describes the feeling of loosing control when he writes “my body had become a kind of quicksand, and I was sinking into myself,