Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer

It is shown in Tom Sawyer that women are not expected to do the same work as a man, and not expected to know as much. This can be seen as Aunt Polly is only showed as staying inside and taking care of children. Becky is treated a bit unfairly by the male character in the book, and is not expected to know as much. This is how women were normally thought of at that time. Women were not thought of to be educated, and extremely powerful, or strong. The character of Aunt Polly is just known to be one who takes care of children. She doesn’t go out and work she sews and takes care of the children. It shows the stereotype that women don’t do much rather than, cook, clean, and look after children. She’s not shows as going out and working a full time job. The portrayal of women at that time was not known to be this powerful hero that could do anything. They were thought to be frail and amore of a stay at home mom type. Her character really shows how …show more content…
At the beginning she was just this young girl who was not very familiar with much. She was not familiar to many of the ideas talked about, by Tom’s group, where she is asked if she is familiar with the concept of marriage and engagement. Becky was portrayed as not knowing much about the topic. This made her seem almost as if she were uneducated. She comes off as just a young girl with a pretty face. It fits the role of a girl of her age at the time a pretty face without much knowledge of the outside world. The character of Widow Douglas shows that women were not expected to be able to save themselves. In the book just as Injun Joe was about to attack Widow Douglas, Huck came in to save her. The book made it seem as if Widow Douglas was unable to save herself. This is what was normally thought of women, they were treated as if they could not fend for themselves. This portrays another stereotype that women are weak and cannot defend