Analize the ways in which Jim tries to be masculine

Jim is a very complex and dynamic character. He displays unemotion and roughness to succumb to his gender role and gradually contributing to the male stereotype. Jim does not cook or clean, since he believes that those chores are exclusively for women. He also associates tending for the elderly as part of women's duties. This is clearly presented as Gloria takes care of the physical health and well-being of Jim's father. When Jim's father becomes ill and commences to cough blood, Jim is reluctant to fetch the pills his father needs to recuperate. Gloria then undertakes to go in Jim's place. As Jim asserts, "I'm the General. Me run tings.", the audience rapidly perceives his hunger for domination and how Gloria exists to provide his comforts, which are mostly food and sex. He wants to effectively achieve his role as "man of the house" by making the decisions and taking control of every situation the family might encounter. Jim is not as strong and masculine as he puts on. A series of reactions ensures the reader thaty Jim is wearing a veil to cover his true self and to carry out his archetypal characteristics. When Gloria tricks Jim into thinking that she flushed the money, Jim begins to cry. Crying is very much associated to women, thus, Rhone incorporates female qualities to Jim. Additionally, Rhone presents the stereotype in which men are affiliated to cleverness and astuteness. Jim wants to be the one with all the good ideas concerning where to hide the money to execute their plan to become legal and reunite with their children, so he tries to take credit for Gloria's ideas. He explains "What A tell yuh, Gloria, I is the General. Dem could search till thy kingdom come, dem would never find where I put the money." Jim also tries to manipulate Gloria to cook, after she arrived from America. He appeals to pity by showing Gloria his burned hand in an attempt to cook, while she was away. Despite all these negative traits, Jim is considered a dynamic character because to avoid losing Gloria, he is willing to put effort and change his way of being. By determined to reconquer Gloria's love, Jim demonstrates that he is not as self-centered and selfish as his behavior suggests during the rising action and the climax of the play.