Case Studies Part 2 Jean Sweetland never expected that she would one day have so many different hats to wear .But now,in her early forties,when Jean comes home from her full-time job as a nurse and takes off her nurse's cap,it seems as through her day has barely started.With two teenage children living at home,Jean next must put on her mother's hat and enforce household rules,dispense advice,help with homework, or just provide a shoulder to cry on.Before her husband comes home from his own job,Jean has to pop on her chef's hat and get dinner started; the maid's cap will come out later,when Jean does the family's laundry and cleans the bathrooms.As if all this weren't enough,the responsibility has fallen
She is awestruck at how much her little sister had grown up. Words such as “needlepoint,” “little” scissors, and “fine” wires, display delicacy which relates to Maria Teresa and her womanhood. However, despite the fact that Maria Teresa had matured into a woman fighting for a movement, she is not yet fully independent and is restrained from gaining her independence. As a woman, even while fighting in a revolutionary movement, she is expected to do the household chores. Why is Maria Teresa immediately put to housework?
She had been adverted to consider the spousal relationship as a responsibility and burgeon and may well have implied that at that time the factor of sensuality was missing on her side. All her relationships were qualified by caution, solicitude, and kindliness. Three years afterwards she wedded her 5th cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, an appropriate fit for a woman of her assort. But Franklin's overly-protective mother shortly set out to broaden her dominance over her recent daughter-in-law. "I was beginning to be an entirely dependent person," Eleanor stated, "someone always to decide everything for me."
| “There are states that require a parental consent for children under the age of 18 years.” There should be more substance to this point. The sentence stands alone and leaves the reader wondering. | What is your favorite part of this piece of writing? | “When a woman decides that abortion is the way to go it not an easy decision to come to there may be factors that they need to look at. When a women is pregnant and they are excited at the fact that they are pregnant all of that joy can be shattered after an ultrasound is performed and the women is informed that her child is going to have no functional daily life and is going to be hook up to a ventilator for the rest of his/her life.” This is a very strong personal opinion that I completely agree with.
They did a lot of moving around, from having to live with relatives to living in government housing. Viola always dreamt of a better life not only for herself, but also for her mother and her siblings. She shared thoughts that if she were to ever be blessed financially, she was going to be a blessing to others (personal communication, May 6, 2009). Well, her opportunity to be a blessing came a few years after she married her husband who is a successful doctor. This has placed Viola in the upper middle class of society, where she no longer has to worry about finances, has both of her children in private schools, and has even purchased a home for her mother.
Along Cinderella and Siddhartha’s journey, they encounter many of the same problems. Two heroes could not ask for a better home life. Cinderella is the daughter of a rich man who is unfortunately married to a wicked woman. After the death of Cinderella’s father, she is left under the care of her stepmother and is forced to live with her two stepdaughters. She is obligated to complete all the chores around the house and any other task her stepmother asks of her while her stepsisters are being handed whatever they please.
Mrs. Mallard longed for freedom “There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.” and through that window, was her freedom. Just like Mrs. Mallard, the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper” was confined to a home with no leave. Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrayed an emotional attitude for the story about how the woman gradually becomes insane due to isolation by her husband. Women in this time period knew they would be provided money and shelter for the rest of their lives, and they would be viewed as having filled society's role for woman.
The United States was in a crisis due to the extreme decline in birth rates so in desperation to do something about this the Republic of Gilead formed. The goal of this State was based strictly on reproduction and they would take control of woman’s bodies, not allowing them to, read, write, vote, hold property, or even think for themselves. Handmaid’s would be assigned to married couples and there only job was to lie on their back once a month and hope that their owners, the commanders, would make them pregnant. Ever since Gilead began woman were forced to live with this way of life and for some of the younger Handmaid’s it was the only way they knew. “Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to.
By Edna neglecting her Tuesday’s at home she not only puts a bad name on herself, but that bad name is reflected on her family too. Edna decides “to do as she liked and to feel as she liked” (Chopin 95) demonstrating a selfish nature according to the expectations of a Creole woman (95). As Edna continues to go against her husbands’ wishes she “[resolves] never to take another step backward” (Chopin 95), deciding that in order for her to continue down this path of independence and succeed she needs to put her entire being in to this decision (95). The further Edna continues down this path, and the more she pushes against her husband testing his boundaries, she decides that she would be better off living on her own. The decision to move in to her own house is beyond unacceptable to her husband during this time but Edna does not care about this, rather speaking of how she “[knows she] shall like it, the feeling of freedom and independence” (Chopin
Dee’s perspective Have you ever met a person, who did not care about anyone but themselves? In Alice Walker’s short story of “Everyday Use” the character Dee is a very self centered person .She expresses this in many different ways.She wanted everything thats not hers. When she graduated from high school she took one of mother’s suits made a dress out of it, and after that she wanted someone to buy some pumps/heels to match with it. Whenever she came to visit she would rub her intelligence in. Once her and her husband arrived at mother’s house, Maggie and Dee started arguing about who take the quilt that been in the family for a very long time.