Andrew Marton vs. Gender Roles

Nataliya was born in Russia but she would try to make her life in America. This article, written by a male member of the Fort Worth Star Telegram’s staff, tells Nataliya’s unfortunate story with surprisingly unbiased opinion and a strong sense of gender indifference. Andrew Marton, the article’s male author, did an excellent job of revealing Nataliya’s story as a mail-order-bride. Her story tells of the hardships in her own country that led her to attempt the transition to American life and an American man. Even though capturing emotions seems hardly the function of a newspaper article, Marton does a fairly good job of sharing Nataliya’s story without passing judgment and without clouding the facts. Even the scoundrel of the story, Nataliya’s husband Henderson, was not set up to become vilified by the author. The facts of the case were set out and the morality of both parties was neither explicitly nor implicitly hinted at. The cultural differences, although obvious, were not presented as objectionable but rather as causal and as possible prerequisites for Nataliya’s actions.
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