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Gender StudiesMy decision to take the extracts from literary discourse to illustrate the differences between the manful and female manner of compose was dictated by the fact that it is more interesting to search for such(prenominal) differences in this very discourse, then in scientific or newspaper, where at that place are grim rules of how to write (non-personal narration, non-emotiveness, usage of terms laconic phrases, etc.)In literary discourse iodin may write whatever one wishes.(Jane Austen. Pride Prejudice)After a week spent in professions of come and schemes of felicity, Mr Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. The pain of separation, might be alleviated on his side, by preparations for the reception of his bride as he had occasion to hope, that shortly after his next return into the Hertfordshire, the day would be better that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much(prenominal ) solemnity as before wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their puzzle another letter for thanks.(F. Scott Fitzgelald. Tender is the Night)Rosemary had another dinner date, a birthday party for a member of the company. Dick ran into a Collis remains in the lobby, but he wanted to dine alone and off-key an engagement at the Excelsior. He drank a cocktail with Collis and his vague dissatisfaction crystallized as impatience he no longer had an excuse for playing truant to the clinic. This was less an infatuation than a romantic memory. Nicole was his girl too often he was sick at heart about her, yet she was his girl. judgment of conviction with Rosemary was self-indulgence time with Collis was nothing plus nothing.Already from the structure of the passage it is visible which passage was written by a cleaning lady and which by a man. Austen writes the events without any consequence, together with her thoughts and comments, whereas Fitzgerald, by co ntrast, enumerates the events in strict consecutive order. In addition, Austen uses more emotional and subjective adjectives to describe battalion and their state.It was counted that the female author uses verbs almost half less then the male author does (713).In the domain of punctuation, the gender differences are the most transparent Jane Austen tends to the idiosyncratic usage of semi-columns she does not use dashes in the given passage, whereas F. Scott Fitzgelald uses trine dashes (as the indicator of reason-result understanding of events &1645he prefers to explain the human appearance using a dash) and not a single semi-column.