Who Is Stress Exposed In Dagoberto Gilb's Shout

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Stress can totally change a person’s personality, causing that person to act negatively in different situations where the behavior seems unjustified or rash. Every one of us has probably experienced stress or frustration from work in different aspects of our lives, and it is likely much worse for someone in a role of the primary caretaker of a family. In order to provide for the obligations, often unwillingly taken on, of a family's security, and the stresses of that home life become even more acute and striking. Such is the scenario found in Dagoberto Gilb's short story, "Shout," where the reader is shown a snapshot into the life of a struggling young family, in which the protagonist, the husband in the story, was having a hard time trying