Feminist Criticism In Mr. Parker, And Men And Women

Feminism is the belief that men and women should have equal rights and equal opportunities. The feminist criticism can be applied to all literary works. When someone is treated differently because of their gender, it can be viewed through a feminist viewpoint. All of the other critics have boundaries and can only be used towards those literary works. The feminist criticism also applies to how people see the world differently; the severity of which people view this criticism based more on people’s personal opinions rather than facts. I find feminism to be the most interesting because you can see how men and women are treated in literary works, how their treatment differs in society, and what relationships between man and women are in literary works.
Women are treated and expected to follow a certain set of norms in most literary works. The short stories “Mr. Parker” and “Boys and Girls” the mothers are both stay at home moms who want their daughters to do things the way they do. In “Mr. Parker” the mother stops letting Jane go to her piano lessons and wants her to take a beginners class. Most mothers would not halt their daughters education when a piano …show more content…
In “Boys and Girls” it seems like the father does not appreciate the work that the girl does around the farm, but in reality he had to. A salesman says that she could not be the real help, since she is only a girl. The men in this story were put down as to show more how the girl felt, not how these men would actually act. In “Mr. Parker,” Jane’s mother stops her from going to Mr. Parker’s for piano lessons because his wife died. Mr. Parker was a professional that studied at Juilliard and worked on Wall Street. He never showed any signs that he would do anything to break the mothers trust. The father in this story, tries to argue with the mother, but is shot down, and forced to allow his daughter to stop piano