In the works Women Work, A Jury of Her Peers, and A Work of Artifice the authors portray a negative image of women to society. All of these works talk about some way women are less than men but mainly they talk about their domestic work around the house. Women are portrayed in these works to only have to worry about working in the house and that, which is all they are good for. Domestic work around the house is a theme in all of these stories made to show how society perceives women and show how it is not the way women are to be portrayed. Many women in literature are portrayed by their domestic work around the house and how it is a very demining chore. The way women are portrayed to only do domestic work around the house shows how society
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The story is about a murder in a small town and the men are the sheriff and the county attorney and the women in the story are their wives. The women are brought in because they might be able to help with figuring out what happened. Through out the story the wives are looked down on and not respected. The men say demining stuff about women by saying, “Dirty towels! Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?”(Glaspell 149). This explains how men perceive women and if they aren’t a good housekeeper she’s not much of a woman at all. The women there don 't like when they say that and in return Mrs. Hale says, “ There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm”(Glaspell 149). They are trying to defend Minnie Wright; even though she killed her husband they understand how stressful life is as a woman. The men do not realize this and think that women are only good for domestic work around the house. Even though the women are the ones who figured out the murder the men still do not respect …show more content…
The tree is a woman in society and the gardener is society. The gardener grooms the tree to how he wants it, which symbolizes how society grooms women to a certain way every since they are young. The poem symbolically says that women need to be, “small and cozy, domestic and weak”(Piercy 23). This shows that women need to be used to the house and need to be used to working in the house. Society can almost nearly be seen as men and how men groom women into being what they want them to be when they are grown up. The poem also talks about how woman need, “ the bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers, the hands you love to touch.”(Piercy 23) Women are halted from reaching there full potential by society because us as a society want to use woman and don 't want woman to elevate above society. Men are groomed to reach their full potential so that one-day they might be able to be above society. This is where women and men differ in society women are to stay in the house and men are supposed to be the head of the house and leader of the family. If society saw a women doing a mans role they would be shocked and maybe mad and if society saw a man doing a woman’s job they would be confused and mad. Either gender can do whatever they want but society wants us as people to fall into a specific category and not move out of that
The story is about a murder in a small town and the men are the sheriff and the county attorney and the women in the story are their wives. The women are brought in because they might be able to help with figuring out what happened. Through out the story the wives are looked down on and not respected. The men say demining stuff about women by saying, “Dirty towels! Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?”(Glaspell 149). This explains how men perceive women and if they aren’t a good housekeeper she’s not much of a woman at all. The women there don 't like when they say that and in return Mrs. Hale says, “ There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm”(Glaspell 149). They are trying to defend Minnie Wright; even though she killed her husband they understand how stressful life is as a woman. The men do not realize this and think that women are only good for domestic work around the house. Even though the women are the ones who figured out the murder the men still do not respect …show more content…
The tree is a woman in society and the gardener is society. The gardener grooms the tree to how he wants it, which symbolizes how society grooms women to a certain way every since they are young. The poem symbolically says that women need to be, “small and cozy, domestic and weak”(Piercy 23). This shows that women need to be used to the house and need to be used to working in the house. Society can almost nearly be seen as men and how men groom women into being what they want them to be when they are grown up. The poem also talks about how woman need, “ the bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers, the hands you love to touch.”(Piercy 23) Women are halted from reaching there full potential by society because us as a society want to use woman and don 't want woman to elevate above society. Men are groomed to reach their full potential so that one-day they might be able to be above society. This is where women and men differ in society women are to stay in the house and men are supposed to be the head of the house and leader of the family. If society saw a women doing a mans role they would be shocked and maybe mad and if society saw a man doing a woman’s job they would be confused and mad. Either gender can do whatever they want but society wants us as people to fall into a specific category and not move out of that