Who Is Shelley Hrdlitschka's Sister Wife

“Sister Wife,” by Shelley Hrdlitschka is set in a polygamous community run by men who manipulate women into believing that their rules are absolute and people that do not follow them are evil; however, the reader learns along with the main character Celeste, that rules and common sense are two very different things and those rules of the community are not common sense at all. The rules that are enforced by the men affect the parenting roles of both men and women. They also ruin the opportunities that the world offers to women. The expectations are straightforward and the women know what they are right from the beginning. The rules of the community also affect the outcomes of Celeste’s life because of how strict they are toward them. Manipulating …show more content…
They do not have the opportunity to leave the Unity. If a male laves Unity it is not as frowned upon as if a female leaves because for each man there are an abundance of wives and when a woman leaves Unity they are shunned away from their family and everyone and everything they have ever known. The women go to school but they know they will not aspire to be anything because they are set out to be a sister wife. Women outside of Unity are able to go to school and have the opportunity to pursue any job they have aspirations for, but since the rules for the Unity are strictly to make the women become a young wife Celeste’s father turns down her dream to become a veterinarian and it crushes her heart. This causes the women to be isolated in the Unity and it manipulates them that they cannot become anything better than a sister wife. It takes away from the rights and freedoms of the women in the Unity that everyone in the country is supposed to have. The opportunities are not there for the women in the polygamous community and the women are getting kept away from being able to be their own person in the