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In addition, the author helps the reader understand the selfishness of the mother when the reader finds out she have stole the Persian Carpet “several months before” (230) the divorce and puts the blame on Ilya, the poor blind man. Furthermore, the visit of the children is supposed to signal a fresh start for the family. The mother even emphasizes she wants the girls to come “live with [them]” (229). Yet again, even if they meet in order to reunite, characterized by a situational irony, they see themselves separated because of her mother selfish decisions.

The author agrees with the idea of women as victims through the characterisation of women in the short story. The women are portrayed as helpless to the torment inflicted upon them by the boy in the story. This positions readers to feel sympathy for the women but also think of the world outside the text in which women are also seen as inferior to men. “Each season provided him new ways of frightening the little girls who sat in front of him or behind him”. This statement shows that the boy’s primary target were the girls who sat next to him. This supports the tradition idea of women as the victims and compels readers to see that the women in the text are treated more or less the same as the women in the outside world. Characterisation has been used by the author to reinforce the traditional idea of women as the helpless victims.

This oppressive nature results in an inferiority complex being developed by the narrator. The narrator is unable to express her opinion

Having concluded that both females are in complete possession of their mental capacities at the beginning of the stories, a collation of The Awakening and “The Yellow Wall-Paper” uncovers a similarity in the oppressiveness of the ruling male figures. Both husbands in

The author shows a great example of the power these men had against these women in the village. In the time period this story took place, it was amazing to the author to witness that gender inequality was still a very big issue in some places. The author described how shocked she was when she found out that these women were not allowed to

At the beginning of this same line, the girl tells what she does not like, "It seemed to me that work in the house was endless, dreary and peculiarly depressing."  She sees her mother's life and the work that she does and simply does not want to be a part of it.  She also outright says, "I hated the hot dark kitchen in summer; the green blinds and the flypapers, the same old oil table and wavy mirror and bumpy linoleum" (113).  The girl is showing her opposition to her assigned gender role.  She does not like working in the house or preparing comparing and contrasting of the father's world versus the mother's world.  The father's world is composed of outdoor work, fox farming, has no emotion, expresses freedom and identified by light.  The father's world is all about the death of animals.  So, there is no time for emotions.  This lack of emotions is also carried into the relationship between the girl and her father.  The girl says, My father did not talk to me unless it was about the job we were doing.  Whatever thoughts and stories my father had were private, and I was shy of him and would never ask him questions" (112).  The girl accepted this and considered it part of the attitude you have to have for this job.  The girl prefers her father's type of emotion rather than her mother's.  The girl describes her mother's emotions:

Lindo was arranged to marry Tyan-yu. While the marriage was short-lived, Tyan-yu constantly lied to Lindo, and Tyan-yu’s mother treated Lindo like an object to be bartered between families. Lindo experiences depression being trapped in this lifestyle, so she decides to flee to America in order to escape it. When reminiscing on her marriage Lindo says, “I had no choice, now or later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always the last to give up stupid old-fashioned customs” (Tan ). Similar to the mother in the beginning, Tan creates appeal to pathos, forcing the reader to sympathize with Lindo. The reader’s sympathy to Lindo allows Tan to expand on the larger issue of sexism, creating an emotional and educational tone in order to coax the reader into, again, understanding the true scale of sexism. Tan drilling this larger idea of sexism into readers changes the reader’s perspective. With new perspective, readers notice the need for change to establish equality between both sexes. Therefore, Tan is using her writing as a tool for a deeper subject: exciting change within the world, and thus, exemplifying Jong’s words.

When the readers meet the young, subordinated wife of a physician, who remains nameless throughout the entire story, perhaps hinting at the commonness of such situations where all those women are the same: faceless and nameless, this woman’s dilemma becomes obvious. She has been stripped off the only function a woman in those times had, the domestic one, due to the fact that she suffers from a mysterious illness which requires the infamous bed cure. Gradually, she is treated more and more as a child, unable and even forbidden to express herself in a creative way, namely to write, being persuaded that it cannot do any good to someone in her condition. This is why the protagonist (who is simultaneously the narrator), takes it upon herself to write a journal about her experiences and the mysterious woman that haunts her from the

Since both the uncle and father were always at a loss for words, she’s developed her own. “I am writing this only because they can't,” (p.26). Her Father and Uncle's inability to express their true feelings is her motivation as a

In the story the author portrays the protagonist differently from the other characters because she talks about the physical appearance of other characters and when it comes to the narrator we have no idea what she looks like but she is developed partially through her relationship with other characters, although we the readers do come the find out that the narrator is around the age of 15-17 years old and we can assume that she has a bad relationship with her parents because first of all she talks about them maybe once or twice in the whole story and second of all we know that they sent her to boarding school so that alone proves that her relationship with them is lacking. As readers we also know that she has trouble opening up in the story she say “To open your heart. You open your legs but can’t, or don’t dare anyone, to open your heart” (237). This is a prime example of how author characterizes the protagonist as broken and emotionally damaged. And as the story progress the author becomes more honest with us the readers and herself, she starts the reveal the pain she is in and how lonely she feels. The narrator gives us an example of how she feels after sex by saying “After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickness at

First, in “Thе Nеcklacе” Mathildе is a young woman who wants to havе monеy and bе important whilе in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” thе grandmothеr is an old lady who was alrеady important. In addition, Mathildе suffеrеd from pridе bеcausе shе wantеd to bе bеttеr than thе othеrs, but thе grandmothеr suffеrеd from pridе bеcausе shе knеw that shе was bеttеr and morе important than thе othеrs. Anothеr diffеrеncе is that Mathildе’s tragеdy startеd whеn shе lost a nеcklacе, but in thе othеr story thе grandmothеr confusеd two diffеrеnt placеs. In addition, Mathildе manipulatеd hеr husband who rеally lovеd hеr. In contrast, thе grandmothеr triеd to manipulatе hеr son but hе rеally did not takе hеr opinion, so shе triеd to manipulatе hеr grandchildrеn. Furthеrmorе, Mathildе and hеr husband dеcidеd to tеll a liе to Mathildе’s friеnd to havе timе to rеplacе thе lost nеcklacе, yеt thе grandmothеr dеcidеd just to kееp quiеt whеn shе noticе that shе confusеd two placеs and was dirеcting hеr family to nowhеrе. Finally, Mathildе еndеd by lеarning hеr lеsson, tеlling thе truth to hеr friеnd, and working hard to pay back thе

The novel was published in the year 1937. It is a depiction of a woman, whose life itself is an endeavour to oppose patriarchy. The protagonist show case great characteristic traits of representing the spirit of change. She breaks the norms that are posed by the male chauvinistic people around her. As the novel begins it is evident that Janie is suppressed by her own grandmother. This is the first level of suppression she undergoes. Here, a woman is suppressed by another woman of her own family, who has a mind that is glutted with the notions of patriarchy. The grandmother in Their Eyes Were Watching God though understands the sufferings of Janie, believes that it is her duty to get Janie married to the much older rich man. She believes that only a male support can make her life secured and happy. Here the grandmother represents the familial violence that is meted out to young women by people with patriarchal ideologies. According to her, a man is superior to a woman. She believes that only a man can give life and protection to a woman. The grandmother sticks to the old beliefs about marriage. This is one of the notorious notions that the patriarchal society hold on to. She fails to understand that women can live a secured life without even getting married. However, Janie is suppressed here. Janie is unable to protest against her much beloved grandmother. She becomes Logan’s

This is the author's first attempt at making the audience have sympathy for the woman. In our modern day society, we would think that this woman is abandoned and maybe might need some kind of physiological attention. This is a contrast to Poe who wanted people to get the impression that the speaker in his story was a mad man. They both seem to want you to have a kind heart when thinking about the two, however, Poes' character dismisses his credibility when he starts to talk about his reasoning behind his killing.

There is Ayah who is the main character in the story. She is an elder woman that is reflecting on her personal experiences from the past. She reflects on a few different instances in her life where she finds out that her son Jimmie was killed in the war. She also losses her other two kids when the white doctors come and take them away from her. These are just two big tragedies that she deals with that take her a long time to deal with and to accept and begin on the road to recovering from them “Lullaby Characters”(1). Another character is Chato, and he is Ayah’s husband. Chato worked on a ranch for a white farmer and would ride a horse and push the cattle to the fields where there was food for them to eat. One big thing that Chato did was teach Ayah to sign her name in English, but not how to read. This is a big deal in the story because this is how Ayah loses her other two children when she signs a document that the white doctors give her. Chato is able to read and write and communicate well in English but never taught his wife. This is one thing that upsets Ayah greatly after her children are taken away from her and it makes her resent Chato for teaching her how to sign her

As she grew up in a small village in China, so she and her family worked on their croplands and sold their crop to support their family. She could not play with neighbors and siblings because she had to work on the farms for her family. However, the most depressed thing in Idy’s childhood was she could not get any respect from her parents. As she had one younger brother - John, and her parents were a traditional Chinese people, so they followed a traditional Chinese culture - to vale men but belittle women. Idy’s parents cherished her younger brother only. Once she was tidying up the dinner table, but John was trying to disturb her that Idy pushed over him accientally. Her parents realized that John was injured, they punished her that she could not have dinner next day. She was angry and felt hopeless because her parents did not value her.