courageous and strong. He vows to go off romancing and romping through life from that moment on. In the end, Christy has lived up to the traditional view of the dominant male in a patriarchal society. In Some Like It Hot, on the other hand, there is far less of a traditional view of gender roles at the conclusion of the story. Osgood Fielding, confronted with the fact that his beloved Daphne is, in fact, a man, is unfazed. He loves who he loves and simply smiles happily, saying ‘Well, nobody’s perfect!’
text than The Playboy of the Western World or Some Like It Hot. Whereas Christy fi nds success in becoming a traditionally dominant, masculine fi gure and Jerry learns that gender doesn’t matter at all when it comes to true love, there is no neat conclusion for Marjane. Instead, she is eventually driven from her home country by a system that enforces strict gender roles. The fi nal straw for Marjane comes when she visits a work colleague at home and discovers that he speaks for his wife, effectively preventing her from taking part in conversations. Marjane decides to return to Europe, where she can be herself. Challenging gender roles in the world of the text may be the right decision for Marjane, but it is not an easy one to make. She must leave her beloved family behind forever. As Marjane says in the fi nal line of the book, ‘Freedom had a price’.
