"The Revolt of Mother" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Date Submitted: 09/14/2003 18:05:55
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 4 pages (1177 words)
Category: / Literature / World Literature
Length: 4 pages (1177 words)
The Revolt of "Mother"
By, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
In Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "The Revolt of Mother," we see a mother's inner conflict of accepting her role as a submissive wife, the one society wants her to be, and knowing how to handle the resentment from years of living as a subordinate wife to her husband. Throughout the story Freeman uses vivid language to show readers how women were thought as inferior to men …
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…embrace the attitudes expressed by the nineteen-century males. Push to her outer limits Sarah Penn was force to revolt against years of living as a subordinate wife to her husband and the attitude of the nineteen-century male. Her revolt was unlike any the town has ever seen. Some held her to be insane: some, of a lawless and rebellious spirit.
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Freeman, Mary "The Revolt of Mother." Literature and the Writing Process
New Jersey: Pearson, 2002
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