Gender Roles In The Diaries Of Adam And Eve

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Becky, a well known and well respected blogger on Becky’s Book Reviews, says,” I see it as capturing the bewilderment and awe of life as it might have been. It’s not like there was an instruction manual,” She has a point to, In the beginning of times Adam and Eve were put on earth and given a pretty sizeable task of figuring out life. They had to name everything, learn how to survive, and learn how to live with each other. Mark Twain, in writing “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” uses parallel perspectives to show that genders can and do view the same event with an entirely different perspective. Adam and Eve did not enter this world knowing how to live life, instead they had to learn how to live from their intellect alone. One of the hardest…show more content…
Adam feels that “it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her” (Twain 3). The transformation we see in Adam from the beginning of the story to the end is remarkable. Adam goes from barely being able to stand Eve to not being able to imagine life without her. He would give up the “perfect” life in the Garden to be able to be with Eve. While in Eve we see less of drastic change but the transformation is still there. When living with someone for a while you learn how to deal with the daily habits of the other. When Eve is stating her love for Adam she mentions that he sings quite badly but she says that “It sours the milk, but I can get used to that kind of milk” (Twain 3). While Twain takes a humorous spin on stereotypes about men singing what he writes is truly a testament to how deep and profound their love is for each other. Eve does not just learn to deal with Adams poor singing but she learns to love it. The transformation seen in both Adam and Eve points to a theme of differences and how they can bring people
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