Gender Roles In 'The Full Monty'

The Full Monty hits on sensitive social issues in a comedic way. Sheffield was part of the rust belt of England along with Liverpool, Sunderland and Newcastle. The post-industrial society of these cities is almost identical to how it was in America. The father of a family worked in the steel mill with a well-paid union job. The father told his son he could do the same. The son tries to do the same and the factory based economy collapses and the son has no education to help him get another job. The way society changed throughout this time changed the world. Gender roles became different by the wife got a job to help support the family or she was the educated one because her husband’s plan was to work in the steel mill. Class relationships changed …show more content…
He was a higher social class than the rest of the guys. Once they all lost their jobs they were all equal. Gerald couldn’t tell his wife that he had lost his job. It had been six months and he had been going to job club instead of work and she didn’t know it. His wife had been spending and spending and spending during the day. In his house, there were bike machines, nice TVs, new everything that his wife had been buying and he couldn’t afford. The repo guys eventually came and took all of it and his wife left him. Gerald then realized he was just another unemployed guy in Sheffield. You have to feel for him. He was a successful foreman living in a detached home. Had enough money to buy everything he needed. He then became a scrap like the rest of them. The people that kept their jobs such as Gaz’s ex-wife and her new husband saw the job clubbers as lower in society and desperate. They aren’t exactly wrong considering Gaz is now stealing steel beams out of the old factories along with …show more content…
Marriage is no longer seen as a religious obligation so there is a rapid rise in divorce rates. This is also caused by the fact that men can’t sustain the family anymore and their spouses get frustrated and leave them. Both are the main causes. It is also more prevalent that the wife makes more money in the family and is often educated. This is because boys were told they didn’t need to go to college and go get a job at the factory, while the daughters went and I got educated or joined the service job industry right away and developed a skill. These men had no skill so they were essentially useless to the rest of society when the one thing they could do disappeared. What also became common are people moving back home to their parents. This is what happens to Lumper. Lumper didn’t have a job so he couldn’t pay rent and his mom also had mobility issues to it kind of worked both ways. Before you were seen as a failure if you moved back in with your parents. You couldn’t just go get a job anymore because jobs required skills and many people didn’t have them thanks to their