Three

Sophocles establishes gender roles in this part, where women are more reserved than the men. Oedipus takes charge of all the conversations between him and Jocasta, he does most of the talking waiting for Jocasta's next question. Jocasta asks a lot of questions and has many responses that move the conversation forward but also she doesn't say much. This shows how women, in this book, are seen to be less knowledgeable than the men. Oedipus gets frustrated with Jocasta when she states he opinion, this shows that Oedipus feels stronger than Jocasta. Through the short conversations between Oedipus and Jocasta, Sophocles shows men as being superior to women.