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  Answer: In this essay, it would be misleading not to mention that gender has nothing to do with the emotional fate of the characters within the book “like a house on fire”. The premiere story ‘flexion’ introduces the reader to an extremely egocentric family man, Frank Slovac, who always resists asking for help from anyone (Kennedy, 2008). As such, he is run over by a tractor, and due to his nature of not willing to be regarded as being weak, he chooses not to ask for help. During thi...