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Strength and Skill
The Natural refers to a guy who's a natural talent at baseball. So you shouldn't be surprised that strength and skill are major themes in the novel. In fact, the loss of strength and skill is one of the major themes. And this can happen for many reasons, but it usually has to do with a wicked woman. Whether it's a serial killer who shoots young, successful athletes or a gold-digging girlfriend who overfeeds, and possibly poisons Roy, these women sap the strength of our hero.
The novel supports the stereotype that men are strong and women are the weaker sex.
In The Natural, the characters lose their strength through their relationships with dangerous women, proving that women are actually the stronger gender.
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