Turned - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The short fictional drama with a touch of romance, Turned written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is an emotional story of divorce and the mistreatment of women from a woman's/the author's point of view. The story talks of how intolerant and mistreated women were, whether they were rich or poor or foreign or not. When Mrs. Marroner finds out about her husband's secret, she is furious and takes it out on the wrong culprit. After calming down, she searches for people to hold responsible. This really brought out the story, very well. It shows how people can look at things straight away before thinking about what to do or who to blame, in other words: they act before thinking. By doing this, ...

... She uses passages on each page, which makes the story easier to follow and gives time to think about what's occurring. The use of language was very effective as it has a lot of detail involved and it created an emotional tone for the reader. It was a very one-sided, bias language as it set the image that men are always the antagonists and women don't cheat or lie to their husbands. Turned was not a good read, as it was seen boring, uninteresting and the language was very bias and one sided against men, giving the reader a bit of a sexist attitude towards the story. The emotions of the husband weren't portrayed strong enough,

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