How_To_Talk_To_A_Hunter

How To Talk To A Hunter Gender Diversity In her short story “How to Talk to a Hunter” Pam Houston puts an unconventional touch to the way she explains gender differences in a relationship. Her story is told in a consistent but unusual method with nameless characters and diversified insight on the narrator’s thoughts. Houston’s story relates to a vast majority of her readers. Her statements are unspecified, almost as if she is speaking about both genders as a whole. She expresses different thoughts about the attitudes of both men and women in relationships and gives a dose of the female thought process. The narrator in this story seems to be particularly paranoid and insecure. For example, when the hunter is talking about vacationing to Hawaii and Alaska she realizes it is “…impossible to tell if she was included in his plans.” She can’t figure out whether the hunter is talking about herself or another woman. I detected another hint of insecurity when the narrator notices the hunter talks about his friend and “..Manages to say eight things without a gender determining pronoun.” The narrator mentions things like this not only to show the hunter’s infidelity but also to show story, narrator, hunter, women, about, thoughts, relationship, friend, female, things, relationships, male, janie, gender, coyote, two, something, says, readers, read, men, imagination, houston, differences, characters, unique, through, thought, tense, talking, talk, stereotypical, show, short, seems