She had been receiving letters from her ex-husband saying "How are you and the boys? Bet they’re getting big," (1, Medicine River). The clear absence of the father has caused Rose to become independent and have to raise her children by herself, as well as support her kids with no financial aid from a husband, an uncommon front for a woman in a time where men dominated. In addition to the independence and self-reliance of Bertha and Rose, Louise, a female who lives in Medicine River with Will, possesses these same characteristics. She has found a way to succeed at a job in a time when it occurs very seldomly for women.
To know the importance behind Kate Chopin’s novel “The Awakening”, one needs to know a little about the times the book was written in. Around the time the novel was published, in 1899, the industrial revolution was just slowing down and woman’s rights movements were just getting started. Women still had little to no rights and were mostly expected to be stay at home mothers. Women who didn’t choose this path were often looked down upon and ridiculed. The main character in “The Awakening” is Edna Pontellier.
Etta was a character who did not settle down with a man, she was very free spirited. I feel that bringing Mattie and Etta together brings out the best in both of them. Etta brings out the spice in Mattie and Mattie tries to get Etta to settle down. Etta I feel like was using the men she met for status reasons to keep herself up in the community. Next Kiswana, the only women who really chose to live
How would you feel if you are set apart from others and put by yourself? And that also by your very own mother who kept you safe in her womb for nine months where in isolation you grow in stages and when your time comes to enter the world you are hated by her and she is unhappy to see you there. You being fragile and weak are victimized….and you suffer loneliness because even the world is not ready to except you in a friendly manner. You are like a beautiful flower grown in the wild with no one to care. In the novel Like Water for Chocolates After two days of her birth her father died and her life is cursed by her mother, who is no more able to breast feed her and is busy mourning and worried about her responsibility to run the ranch rather than bother for her baby.
Bonnie Smith Yackel's mother is deemed to be an unemployed person according to the government. However, not everyone in the social security office uses correct terminology. The person answering her in the SS office was rude enough to plainly state how her mother, Martha Smith never has worked. If I was the daughter I would be extremely offended at the statement that person just made. And she was and she goes on to explain her mother's life to the reader so she can prove this person wrong and justify her mother's long hardworking career on the farm.
The Women of Waknuk The Chrysalids by John Wyndham illustrates women differently towards their husbands, and their family members. Women in Waknuk are pressured to be perfect. Most likely women like Elias Strorm’s wife, who was a beautiful young lady. Elias Strorm’s strict ways turned his wife into a withered, grey woman, who was almost glad to die one year after David’s father was born. This explains that such a society stifles life.
Elisa Allen: The Chrysanthemums Elisa Allen is a smart, attractive, and ambitious woman whose talent goes unnoticed and lives in a society that does not allow women to have professional careers in John Steinbeck’s The Chrysanthemums. Elisa longed for her husband’s approval when it came to her talent with planting flowers. She desperately wanted to work in the business of the ranch and her offers of helping her husband were brushed off. Elisa’s husband is not as smart, but he makes all of the business decisions and runs the ranch while Elisa watches from afar. Elisa is unsatisfied with life and came in contact with a man who showed up on the ranch who she found appealing to talk to and quite flirtatious which is the kind of interaction she
She was satisfied with never wanting for anything financially, so much so she allowed this to distract her from the fact that she was emotionally unfulfilled in every aspect of her life. She may have indiscreetly envied her independent children and friends, but would never admit such a thing because that would force her to realize she is not at all
Curleys wife is nameless throughout the whole novel. She had many dreams; in the book when lennie and her are at the barn talking she says,” Why can’t i talk to you? I never get to talk to nobody. I get awful lonely...(186) I tell you I ain't used to livin’ like this. I coulda made something of myself.”(188).
Bah!” (26). Mademoiselle had the independence that Edna wants; when she plays she is free from all troubles and despair. Whereas, Edna can paint but still has her children and husband Leonce when she is finished to take care of. The two women share a common interest freedom. Mademoiselle sees this potential in Edna but knows that Edna must first grow into an independent woman and seek the freedom on her own.