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How is Gender presented in 'Spies'? 'Spies' is set in wartime Britain when expectations of gender roles and behaviours were fixed. Men were expected to be heroic fighting for their country, brave, bold, and hardworking. Women were expected to be faithful while their husbands were away fighting and good nurturing mothers. But this novel portrays the realities of World War Britain in a suburban setting. The gender roles for men and women were binary oppositions and in the book they are portrayed as different species altogether. As Stephens identity in the book is gradually sorted as he grows and understands so does his perception of reality which allows the reader to see things are not as they originally appear and the stereotypes aren't a reality. The adult males in the book 'Uncle Peter' and 'Ted Hayward' are both supposed to be 'war-heroes' however Ted stays at home and doesn't fight but is seemingly paranoid...

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