Both "Petrified Man" by Eudora Welty and "Roman Fever" by Edith Wharton hold a mirror up to life. I like these two stories because they implore the women world to the reader. Sometimes women world is very dangerous and men must be on guard. In "Petrified Man", the story taken place in a beauty salon, a normal place in a small town, where everyone knows everyone. Why the author chooses this place? Welty wants to give us a picture of our normal lives and the activities surround us that we take for granted and never pay close attention to it. The beauty salon portrays the women world. We, women like to gossip, and I think it is women nature to be curious of other people lives. We curious of other people lives because we want to compare if our lives are better than our girl friends or not, and it gives us a satisfaction that our lives are much better.
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Gravestone of famous author Eudora Welty
English: I took photo of Eudora Welty at National ...The women in "Petrified Man" are the same. They are the working women, facing the Depression, where their incomes are the resources for the family. Their husbands in here are rather portraying like the petrified man. They are stones or rather dead to these women. The men loose control over the household since they are not the one, who brings home the money. The roles of man a wife in this story are reverse. The women in here gossip to make their lives more livable, help them to forget the hardship of the Great Depression. The women behaviors sometimes similar to men too; the men usually have the habits of boasting their power over their wives or girlfriends. Women are the same. Mrs. Fletcher boast about she is able to control her husband to make her feel good and...