Day By Day

So we left class today lingering on the question whether Le Guin directed her book toward the issue of gender/sex. Personally, i didn't really feel like gender played a great part of the book - it was something i just overlooked. I think her usage of the pronoun "he" is just to help the reader identify and create a better image of the character. I don't think she intended it to be um, sexist i guess. Perhaps she just meant for Estraven to be a more masuline character. I mean, if she didn't paint the picture of Estraven being slightly more masuline, it'd be very difficult for a reader to picture what a person who has no gender to look like. I know i'd have difficulty imaging that. Anyways, i look foward to continuing our class discussion tomorrow. It should quite interesting.