Comparing The Women's Baths, And From Behind The Veil

The 4 authors wrote short stories, such as “My Father Writes to My Mother,” “Another Evening at the Club,” “The Women’s Baths,” and “From Behind the Veil.” In these stories, they are all related because the women in the stories do not have a strong role in society. In fact, they are treated lower than men, while men have the leading role. In “Another Evening at the Club” for example, the women’s husband is in control, basically not able to speak or think for herself. The maid was also had no rights, because she was lower class than the husband and wife, and because she was a woman. In “The Women’s Baths,” the narrators mother does not approve of the narrators grandmother, but because the mother’s husband says it is okay for the grandmother …show more content…
From reading these stories and analyzing their roles, I learned that they often follow tradition and must respect their lower role in society, otherwise conflict is very possible. Since women are fighting and struggling for their equal rights, the women in these selections try to go against what is expected or they embrace what they must deal with. In “My Father Writes to My Mother,” the mother breaks tradition by saying her husbands name. The women abiding to tradition did not approve of this, but the mother was tired of following customs. In “The Women’s Baths,” the mother always argued with the grandmother, trying to take control of the grandmothers actions. During this, the grandmother chose not to listen and continued to go to the public baths despite the discrimination, therefore fighting for what she believes in. In the stories of “Another Evening at the Club,” and “From Behind the Veil,” I gathered that the women in this story were used to what they dealt with and figured there was nothing to do about it but embrace their roles as