Shiloh

In Bobbie Ann Mason’s short story “Drawing Names,” Pappy’s comment about how “the womenfolks [used to] eat last, in the kitchen” receives the following response from his granddaughter, Iris: “Times are different now, Pappy. We’re just as good as the men.” This exchange touches on a predicament Mason shows over and over in her stories: old rules about gender have been toppled, but rather than this change being absolutely and utterly liberating, it complicates relationships between men and women. How does Mason address gender roles in other stories in the Shiloh collection?