Eugenides portrays a hermaphrodite
If males write prose in a linear-masculine style and females tend to adopt a circular narrative, is this a result of testosterone or gender upbringing? In the nature versus nurture battle, Jeffrey Eugenides' newest, \Middlesex,"" eventually rests in the nature camp. But if the prose oscillates between linear and circular it is because Eugenides creates a narrator who defies nature and nurture, a narrator who is both man and woman.