Gerald Mollie's 'If I Were A Man'

This story is about a woman who married a man named Gerald. Her husband did not act the way she wanted him to act because he did not do what she expected him to do. Mollie was a nice woman, but Gerald always underestimated her. Gerald thinks women do not have the same rights as men do. Gerald is a misogynist and he does not believe women have a right to do whatever they want to. I think she did not deserve to marry him because he was acting badly. Sometimes she was wishing to be a man.The author is a feminist and she believe women have the same rights as men. In the story, Mollie uses the phrase “ If I were a man “ to express her feeling to her husband because he did not do the work and she thinks she could do it just as well if she were a man.
The author was feminist and she wanted women to have the same equal rights that men …show more content…
She was one of the early feminists who used fiction to express her ideas. At the time she wrote this story women could not vote and women were not expected to do the job that men can do. She was among the women who were writers but her story is very important. It is successful because her idea become more reality even after she died. In 1914, when the story was written, women could not vote and do not get same an opportunities that men had. At the time women had limited rights. This story is successful because it was written in 1914, a time when women were not allowed to get very important jobs, and we still read it in schools. I think this story it successful because it helps women to listen their ideas before Mollie has not written this story women might not be able to expresses their feeling because they were not have voice. I think this story is successful because it gives women position in the society and many women will act like