The emphasis on existentialism in Lispector's work due to the traditional roles of womenThe human mind often creates traumatized beliefs and twisted upon the world after cataclysmic events occur. Image 1920: the world has just been ravaged by bullets, bombs and malevolent butchers with malicious intentions. The consequences of the Second World War plunged the Ukrainian country into terror, anguish and famine. Imagine being voracious enough to consider devouring a rotting relative, and then putting that thought into practice. Imagine a country where pogroms – violent attacks against ethnic groups, primarily Jews, including the destruction of homes, businesses and churches – are not only regular, but unsurprising events. Imagine the suppression, the repression, the oppression, all the "ions"... Now insert a nine year old girl struggling to live in this madness, add the rape and death of this girl's mother, and there is the The childhood of the famous Brazilian author, Clarice Lispector. These experiences, which would change one's outlook on life, influenced and helped develop Lispector's existentialist ways of thinking. In these past events, gender inequality was very significant, which explains why Lispector focuses on the plight of women in his writings. Due to the oppressive government, women have been confined to their traditional roles and by showing the lack of freedom, both mental and physical, that this imposes on them, Clarice Lispector justifies her existentialist views through her writings; life is pain, misery and inevitably death. These views are imminent when discussing the general lack of freedom in Lispector's stories "The Chicken", "The Smallest Woman in the World", and "Preciousness". the childbirth, her obedience after being captured, and her sudden but unsurprising death describe, from Lispector's point of view, the natural course of an average woman's life. Although Lispector wrote these stories in the 1940s, reflecting on gender inequality and the difficulties of life in the aftermath of World War II, these themes are evident in all eras, because, as Lispector has shown, the innate traditional roles of women as well as the pre The notion that men are more important than women is evident even in our times. These limits reflect Lispector's existentialist views by showing that a woman's life is restricted; women's lives are filled with pressure, sadness and ultimately death. The Gender Gap in Schools Analysis by David Brooks - 977