The two characters that I choose to analysis was Rose Maxson, who was a woman from 1950 in the story Fences by August Wilson and Mrs. Mallard a woman from the 1860 from the story of an hour by Kate Choppin. Who are both marriages, while Rose and Mrs. Mallard are suffering in their marriage and pretending to be happy, but rose love Troy but Mrs. Mallard doesn’t love her husband. Both rose Maxson and Mrs. Mallard are married women who are suffering in their marriage and pretending to be happy on the outside. But on the inside, they are overwhelm because in the story on page 1146, from fences “and you don’t want to either. Maybe you want to, wish me and my boy away. I’ve got eighteen years of my life invested in you. You ought to have stayed
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She has been suffering for 18 years because of her husband Troy and have to put her dreams and goals to the side.so that she could be a committed and nurturing in her marriage, for her family, but she wants her freedom which is shown on page 1147 “ I have been standing with you! I have been right here with you. Troy I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life what about me. Don’t you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men that I want to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities that I want someone to make me laugh so I could feel good You not the only one who’s got wants and need. But I held on to you. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn’t take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn’t never gonna bloom. But I held on to you, troy. I held you tighter, you want my husband. I owned you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you. And …show more content…
Mallard is suffering in her marriage also like Rose because in the time period when the story was written which was in 1894, women did not have much power or say in anything that went on around them. Females in general had less legal rights than males. Women were supposed to stay home, take care of their families and tend to the house chores, while their husbands went out and worked. They couldn’t give their opinions and did not speak out about their feeling. Women were just the property of their husband and lived a life of silence. Due to the laws at that time a married women was defined as being one with her husband would have to give up her name and her property to her husband. Therefore men practically treated their wife and children as property, and his possessions. Women would have to do whatever her husband told her to do or she could receive some form of
She has been suffering for 18 years because of her husband Troy and have to put her dreams and goals to the side.so that she could be a committed and nurturing in her marriage, for her family, but she wants her freedom which is shown on page 1147 “ I have been standing with you! I have been right here with you. Troy I got a life too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don’t you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life what about me. Don’t you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men that I want to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities that I want someone to make me laugh so I could feel good You not the only one who’s got wants and need. But I held on to you. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn’t take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn’t never gonna bloom. But I held on to you, troy. I held you tighter, you want my husband. I owned you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you. And …show more content…
Mallard is suffering in her marriage also like Rose because in the time period when the story was written which was in 1894, women did not have much power or say in anything that went on around them. Females in general had less legal rights than males. Women were supposed to stay home, take care of their families and tend to the house chores, while their husbands went out and worked. They couldn’t give their opinions and did not speak out about their feeling. Women were just the property of their husband and lived a life of silence. Due to the laws at that time a married women was defined as being one with her husband would have to give up her name and her property to her husband. Therefore men practically treated their wife and children as property, and his possessions. Women would have to do whatever her husband told her to do or she could receive some form of