The two do differ, however, when it comes to where they view themselves in their family, whether that be inferior or superior. They represent the women who have fought effortlessly in the past for women's rights and equal pay. They represent all of the obstacles that women have had to overcome over the years. They let women know that it is okay to speak your mind, to have a voice. They allow women to see that they do matter and are not stuck behind the shadow of any man in their life. In the novels The Poisonwood Bible and The Awakening, both Kingsolver and Chopin establish the idea that it is okay to have a voice, and to a point a life, that is not controlled or dictated by a man or significant other in a women’s
The two do differ, however, when it comes to where they view themselves in their family, whether that be inferior or superior. They represent the women who have fought effortlessly in the past for women's rights and equal pay. They represent all of the obstacles that women have had to overcome over the years. They let women know that it is okay to speak your mind, to have a voice. They allow women to see that they do matter and are not stuck behind the shadow of any man in their life. In the novels The Poisonwood Bible and The Awakening, both Kingsolver and Chopin establish the idea that it is okay to have a voice, and to a point a life, that is not controlled or dictated by a man or significant other in a women’s