The Importance of Freedom and/or Love in a Woman's Life as revealed in Three Short Story's
Women are known now to be and are strongly depicted as independent creatures. Of course they need love and affection in there life but if this love is not right for them they will do what it takes to feel free or be free. I have elected to show how authors in three short story's have made it known of how importantly women are in constant need in love and independence throughout their lives whether it be a husband figure or a daughter figure. The book in which the short stories appear is Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing by Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs. The three stories, in which they will appear in order in my paper, are "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, "A Jury Of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell, and "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker.
Kate Chopin in 1894
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Wright 1909 Military FlyerIn the "Story of an Hour" by Chopin we have know immediate awareness of the character Mrs. Mallards wanting to be free and independent. We first get a hint of it through the authors describing her physical expression after she sat in the chair in her room(394). She started to describe how beautiful it was outside and how the main character was just starting to realize this in her life(394). But why? Only to keep telling of how Mrs. Mallard went into a deep trance in which the author called "a suspension of intelligent thought". Then the thought came to her that now she was free. Free from her husband and the lifestyle she new before his death. She didn't have anyone to live for but herself. Chopin's description of this lets us know something wasn't right with...