Homosexuality Depicted In The Short Story 'Parents Night'

People have limited control over who they are and what they become because people cannot control their physical or biological characteristics. In the short story, “Parents Night”, Karen secretly hid from her parents, she was gay, moreover, in a group called “Gay-Straight-Bisexual Alliance”, Karen is anxious that her parents will not accept whom she truly is, if they find out. After Karen accidently told her parents she was gay , her parents turned distressed, Karen afterwards replied to them, “I’m sorry,’ I said going back to my chair, ‘I’m sorry but that’s how it is- how I am.” (140) This demonstrates that Karen is apologizing to her parents, Karen’s parents seem as though it is unethical to have a sexual orientation other than being straight, her parents are clearly disappointed in her.
This explains how people cannot force to change themselves substantially, due to being accepted more of oneself of what they truly want to be as or become. Moving on, in the short story, “Blonde,” Jean, the protagonist of the story, is extremely unsatisfied of her own appearance, to which she succumbs to dreaming of possessing Blonde hair, which according to her, thinks is beautiful and believes will become beautiful with Blonde hair. After Jean attempted to become like Lisa with using a blonde wig she, “stared into the mirror, at my dark, centerless eyes, searching for Lisa’s face, the Blonde wig on my head like the usurper’s uneasy crown.” (2) Jean declared she felt as though the Blonde wig on her head was not meant for her or was comparable to a usurper’s uneasy crown, which directly means someone who takes another’s position without the right to do so. As a result, Jean feels as though she is robbing Lisa Ogleby’s appearance illegally, besmirching the blonde hair’s true beauty in Lisa Ogleby, which also suggests that Jean admits she is not fit for the blonde hair, however,