The narrator who is the wife , expresses a lot of dissatisfaction with her marriage and her role as a wife. She is attempting to learn how to cook by using guidelines through a cook book because in reality she does not know how to cook. There are many expectations on how a woman should present themselves not only to their husband but there is also a lot of societal pressure to overcome in the idea that women’s place is in the kitchen and they must tend to all her husband’s needs without protest. This is all indicating how gender roles play an integral part in society. There are a lot of flashbacks at the time that the narrator is cooking that makes her lose focus and feel resentful towards her husband when she reminisces what life was like before he came into the picture. At the end she does not triumph in the roasting and contemplates her two possible solutions which are either to distract her husband from realizing she is not the ideal wife he thought he married or covering up her mistake with her charms in getting him to take her out to dinner. Either way she cannot escape from existing stereotypes that women have been placed under. The narrator says, “My place is here. I have been here from the beginning of time.” This just further indicates the oppression that not just the narrator feels but that all women have been placed under this same scope for a long time. The culture forces them to live accordingly and entraps them within their own homes and the fear to
The narrator who is the wife , expresses a lot of dissatisfaction with her marriage and her role as a wife. She is attempting to learn how to cook by using guidelines through a cook book because in reality she does not know how to cook. There are many expectations on how a woman should present themselves not only to their husband but there is also a lot of societal pressure to overcome in the idea that women’s place is in the kitchen and they must tend to all her husband’s needs without protest. This is all indicating how gender roles play an integral part in society. There are a lot of flashbacks at the time that the narrator is cooking that makes her lose focus and feel resentful towards her husband when she reminisces what life was like before he came into the picture. At the end she does not triumph in the roasting and contemplates her two possible solutions which are either to distract her husband from realizing she is not the ideal wife he thought he married or covering up her mistake with her charms in getting him to take her out to dinner. Either way she cannot escape from existing stereotypes that women have been placed under. The narrator says, “My place is here. I have been here from the beginning of time.” This just further indicates the oppression that not just the narrator feels but that all women have been placed under this same scope for a long time. The culture forces them to live accordingly and entraps them within their own homes and the fear to