Investigating Identity Through Gender Roles: A Stylistic Analysis of The House of Broken Angels

Abstract

The current study has been designed to explore gender roles through stylistic analysis. The objective of the study is to identify and investigate the adjectives used in the text The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea to portray gender roles to construct identity of the protagonist male and female characters. It also explores how language manifests the identity of the characters based on differing gender roles in the Novel. The researcher has adopted Leech & Short (2007) model of stylistic analysis on lexical level to study the adjectives on the basis of their contextual occurrence, which are strongly knitted together in a literary text. The findings state that linguistic choices, such as Adjectives can effectively use to portray the gender roles and identity construction of the characters in a literary work. This study is instrumental in initiating a journey to elucidate literary language via linguistic tools and evidences contributing adequately, to the field of stylistics.