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5 pages in length. Paul Auster's lack of female attachments in his memoir "Hand To Mouth," or his decision to minimize them, suggests that the stereotypical gender roles reflected in his parents' marriage had a charismatic effect upon him. As such, Auster may not have cultivated a balanced perspective in relation to gender understanding, opting instead to abide by an involuntary yet preprogrammed emotional detachment from the opposite sex. This observation, one might readily surmise, provides for a significantly better understanding as to why "Hand To Mouth" bestows such a strong sense of one-dimensional, unappealing and lifeless characterizations. No additional sources cited.
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that the stereotypical gender roles reflected in his parents marriage had a charismatic effect upon him. As such, Auster may not have cultivated a balanced perspective in relation to
gender understanding, opting instead to abide by an involuntary yet preprogrammed emotional detachment from the opposite sex. This observation, one might readily surmise, provides for a significantly better understanding
as to why Hand To Mouth bestows such a strong sense of one-dimensional, unappealing and lifeless characterizations. Austers father held tremendous influence over
him; as a child, Auster was torn between the consumerist tendencies of his mother and his fathers perpetual depression era attitude toward spending. Constantly torn between his fathers frugality
and his mothers generosity, Auster came to associate this vast separation to every other area of their marriage. Watching his mother and father interact from two such distinctly different
arenas gave him a persistent sense of uneasiness; not realizing how this would ultimately impact his gender perception, Auster inevitably and inadvertently leaned in the direction of gender segregation.
"...Much as I adored my beautiful, endlessly charming mother for dazzling the world as she did, I also adored my father for resisting that same world. It could be
maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it was also instructive, and in the long run I think I paid
more attention to those lessons than I ever realized" (Auster 19). The patriarchal impression emblazoned upon Austers psyche might be construed as the primary reason why women are conspicuously
minimized throughout Hand To Mouth. This decidedly instinctive response represents the culmination of how he, like so many other childhood and adolescent males before him, has been indoctrinated by
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