Woori

Moore shows stereotypes of male and female behavior in love positioning. He describes two steps how male and female interact each other. First how female takes male into her world and male’s reaction to it. Second is how female persuades him to stay in her world and male’s adoption to it.

First, in the text Tommy is furious because Jody made him a vampire while he was unconscious. She needs a vampire companion to share her life. But Jody naively says: “I wanted us to be together”. Jody hides her cheap desire and replaces it with value “love”. Soon, Tommy responds sarcastically: “Yeah, that’s why you spent the night with him”. Male shows his jealousy in a childish way–mocking. Tommy keeps criticizing Jody and she logically offends it:” You had sex with me while I was unconscious”. Responding to this logic, Tommy insisting: “That’s not the same, I was just being friendly, like ….”, Male tries to justify his wrongdoings by covering it better. Soon, Tommy ends up being shameful on necrophilia, saying:” but you are not even human. You’re just some foul dead thing” Tommy soon regrets his childish reaction and curses on her. Male hates being ignored by female so they are unskillful in admitting wrongdoings. But by taking this chance Jody tries to control him:”Jody sniffled, completely for effect. Actually she was relieved that Tommy was now on the defensive” …” Dame, she should have pretended to cry”. Jody appeals to Tommy’s emotion by acting like a weak thing. Female knows how to use their tears: Male feels guilty in front of female’s tears. Tommy ends up succumbing to Jody and she acquires him: “Great, she thought, in control once again”. Soon Tommy gets frustrated with his physical changes. From here, Moore shows how female persuades male to stay in her world. Physical changes mean difficulties in adapting to female world. But Jody skillfully manipulates Tommy:” we’re fucked together. Like Romeo and Juliet…” To justify her guilt, Jody transcendentalizes the tragic changes with beautiful and sad love story “Romeo and Juliet”. Further she continues persuading Tommy, with his super power and her sexuality– both are toys for male: “you can see in the dark now. ….. I’ll get naked. You can look at me in the dark. Naked. You’ll like it”. Jody wants him to be content in her world with joys given by her. And this looks like a Mom giving toys to a son. She keeps manipulating him complimenting on his strange changes like a mom:”you’re perfect and you’ll always be perfect..” This male and female behavior shows their stereotypes in love positioning. In order to tame a male into own world, female incessantly persuades and manipulates male by appealing to emotion, encouraging, caring like a mom and using sexuality. And male reluctantly behaves to be involved in her world first but soon gets manipulated by female because of his simplicity and vulnerability to sexuality.