Wave 1

Genly basically continues to love on Gethen the place he called winter.  He starts out having a really hard time understanding how the Gethenians do things.  the Gethenians don't have any gender until their time for Kemmer comes.   Since he is a human its hard for him to understand because on earth we use pronouns such as him and her.  But on the planet he calls winter Genly calls them all "he" because it's easier for him to understand that way.  While Genly was talking to Estraven, he was thinking about how " It was impossible to think of him as a woman, that dark, ironic, powerful presence, and yet whenever I thought of him as a man I felt a sense of falseness.''  (pg.12) Genly again seemed confused and of course, we would all know why he is confused because he does not understand why.  Even though Genly is confused he still willing to learn about the Gethenian culture and why they do the certain "weird" things they do.  Even though he has been on Gethen for a while he says and talks about how he still feels like a stranger.  This very much makes sense since he is from the earth and the two places are significantly different from one another.