Many works of literature from the 1900's, a time period in which male dominance was the norm, depict this ideal of male supremacy regularly throughout their context. This idea of male dominance controlling the female identity was extremely prominent in works of art such as the play Trifles written by Susan Glaspell in 1916, the short story A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor that was written in 1955 and the poem Women by May Swenson written in 1967. In each of these three works of art we see a central theme. We see each of the authors touch on the idea that in a world with a strong history of male dominance, men are mistaken in their assumption that women derive their identity solely from their relationship to men. This theme is rather important as there are many situations, even in current times, in which men attempt to control their woman and manipulate them to act a certain way or participate in certain activities. Through poetry, plays, stories, and all different types of literature authors are able to indirectly imply certain themes and we see that this was most definitely the case in the writing of authors Glaspell, O'Connor, and Swenson. All written in the 1900's each of these pieces involve conflict between a man and a woman or many men and many women. During the 1900's the women was thought of as lesser value then the male and it was assumed that the female would stay at home, take care of the family, and clean the house.
