Problematization of Conventional Gender Roles in Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

Abstract

This research focuses on Hemingway'sA Moveable Feastconcerning the issue of genderrelationship between man and woman. This research depicts the ideaof conventional gender rolesassociating Hemingway's affairs with the women while he was living in Paris. Hemingway has invariably pursued the explosion of the myth of masculinity by asserting the issues of gender identity and the source of his psychological conflicts. Androgyny, a key word in gender bending, implies the negation of a watertight system of binaries. Biography has thus not only pioneered the disruption of the writer as an icon of monolithic masculinity and allowed literacy criticism to read his texts as containing a plurality of crosscutting gender identities. A traditional gender role orientation emphasizes difference between men and women and assumes that each sex has a natural affinity to bring a change into someone's life. Key words: masculinity, feminists, androgyny, gendered, sexuality.