Social Challenges in Contemporary Society

It is presumed that complaisant class is predetermined by the amount of wealthiness cardinal possesses. Within affectionate classes at that place is also a divergence between men and women. However, in todays society, social constructs argon becoming more(prenominal) gender neutral, and women are victorious on roles that were once simply performed by men. In Le Guins The Necklace readers are given a clear picture of how social class and gender roles are manipulated by the amount of wealth one has. This picture is drawn when the main character, Semley, c residencyenges the patriarchal norms of her have society.\nSemley, a poor three-year-old woman whose ancestors are the early kings of Angyar, spends the entire story judgement socially inadequate near the amount of wealth she has compared to those rough her. While Semley is sitting among her saves wealthy family, the origin states, Semleys own demo hardened when she looked raft the hall and saw, in seats furtherm ost below hers, as yet down among the halfbreeds and the midmen, against white skins and black hair, the flare and flash of precious stones. She herself brought goose egg in dowry to her married man, non even a currency hairpin (Le Guin 5-6). This shows that though she is now a part of the Hallanlords, an extremely luxuriant family, she was stable not subject matter because she hasnt contributed a champion piece of wealth to her husbands family. However, right forwarfareds these thoughts cross Semleys mind, the writer states that after the shameful war the Angyar had with the Starlords, their daughters marry poor men, even midmen, having no dowry of adventurous loot to bring a noble husband (Le Guin 5). plane with the knowledge of this fact and still being accepted and courted by a man as wealthy as Duhar of Hallan, Semley feels as though she has to prove that she is neat of marrying Duhar by gaining the wealth those rough her seemed to have.\nWealth also seems to fur bish up to how gender roles are represent in the story. Though wealth gives someon...