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In John Speeches short story, The stern appal, the fibber is perplexed by the new-made actions of his rebellious wife. She quit her job, par haves as a nude actor in an nonprofessional th feedre, and refuses to listen to her male chauvinist husband. The narrators wifes abandonment of the Apollonian for the Dionysian serves as a newfangled day Adam and even that, quite of questioning the sinful nature of man, questions the tralatitious male- maidenly roles in confederation.According to Biblical tradition, Adam and Eve lived prosperously in an orderly, Apollonian garden -? Eden. However, in one case Eve strays from this order and eats the apple of knowledge (while tempting Adam to eat it as well), they both become impair with original sin. Adam and Eves r elimination of tradition, as symbolized by eating the forbidden fruit, results in their ejection from the Garden of Eden and into a more chaotic future. As Eve jilted the Apollonian in an attraction to the Dionysian, t he narrators wife rejected her traditional role of mother and instructor and embraced the Dionysian traits of nudity, disorder, and orgy.She disobeys her masculine husband and tempts him to take off his clothes get dislodge of his attach, wal allow, and keys and embrace sexual equality. In essence, she is mark off what the narrator considers his identity, l held my valuables in my right hand, my literal identification (success 196). hostile Adam and Eve, which primary subject depend is original sin, The Fourth Alarm delves into the feminine break from social subjugation. Achiever does non demonic the narrators wife as the discussion demotions Eve. He instead focuses on the husbands answer to his wifes embracement of a sexual equality that challenges male-female social roles.The narrator, spite striping, can not let go of his worldly possessions that represent his masculinity. He is comforted by tradition and wishes his wife would be more nostalgic and eager of the old gend er roles like he is. Achiever s portrayal of the narrator and his difficulty in accepting dislodge illustrates society difficulty in release traditional female subjugation and base towards gender equality. The underlying question Achiever asks the reader in the Fourth Alarm is if we are ready to accept change, to enjoin down tradition, and to progress to a society marked by equality where the masculine and feminine are equals.