The feminist lens focuses on how women and what their roles are in society. In the short story The Skating Party it undermines women’s equality. When one applies the feminist lens to The Skating Party by Merna Summers women aren't equal to men because women aren't mentioned as equal; they need to find husbands, and or just be attractive to men and be nothing else.
More specifically when Delia’s sister, Eunice came into town Delia said “I invited Eunice out here to find a husband,” (Summers 7) at a party she held to invite all of the town's bachelors so they could meet Eunice. After hearing this Eunice said, “If I’d known that was why you were asking me, I would never have come.” (7). Showing how although women wanted to be equal to men;
More specifically when Delia’s sister, Eunice came into town Delia said “I invited Eunice out here to find a husband,” (Summers 7) at a party she held to invite all of the town's bachelors so they could meet Eunice. After hearing this Eunice said, “If I’d known that was why you were asking me, I would never have come.” (7). Showing how although women wanted to be equal to men;