Commentary On Gender Roles By Esau

This article looks deeply into the final lines of the story when Esau is mentioned. The author believes that this allusion is much more than a commentary on giving away a choice and more of a commentary on the roles of men and women. The author does spends time looking at Esau’s choice to give up his birthright to Jacob and compares that to Louisa’s choice to give up her marriage. He then takes it further to look at Esau as an example of men/masculinity and Louisa as the example of female/femininity. This was a new idea for me and I found it extremely interesting and well thought out. He looks at and describes Esau’s appearance and interactions with his family. He was very rigid, hairy, impulsive every bit the stereotypical male. Louisa