In the short story "The Revolt of 'Mother" by Mary Wilkins Freeman there are many instance where the geneder roles of the 19th century are shown, but one the one that caught most of my attention was the minister and the mother scene. In the last sentence of their onversation Freeman states, "more than anything the minister wondered most about how Adoniram Penn would react" because the minister knows how men during this time period react towards what a women does with out a man's approval (560). The minister could sense the tension and did not want anything to take a turn in the wrong direction even if Sarah felt her heart was right. Despite everything the minister said though Sarah is confident in what she is doing and that is when the reader
