Once women obtained some sense of freedom, they have only been held back. When Edna in the novel starts acting in the way she wants, without listening to her husband and behaving as she wishes, her husband becomes worried. “‘She has let the housekeeping go to the dickens…She’s got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women’”(Chopin 117-118). Her husband instantly goes to the doctor for help, assuming that something is seriously wrong with her, though the doctor reassures him that is it a phase. Women, in the beginning of becoming their own, had to face many instances of men assuming they are medically ill. “Though women do not complain of the power of husbands, each complains of her own husband, or of the husband of her friends. It is the same in all other cases of servitude; at least in the commencement of the emancipatory movement”(Henslin 73). While women do not com pain of their husbands, husbands complain about their
Once women obtained some sense of freedom, they have only been held back. When Edna in the novel starts acting in the way she wants, without listening to her husband and behaving as she wishes, her husband becomes worried. “‘She has let the housekeeping go to the dickens…She’s got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women’”(Chopin 117-118). Her husband instantly goes to the doctor for help, assuming that something is seriously wrong with her, though the doctor reassures him that is it a phase. Women, in the beginning of becoming their own, had to face many instances of men assuming they are medically ill. “Though women do not complain of the power of husbands, each complains of her own husband, or of the husband of her friends. It is the same in all other cases of servitude; at least in the commencement of the emancipatory movement”(Henslin 73). While women do not com pain of their husbands, husbands complain about their