They Don’t Need No Man The role of women from the realism time period to the modernism time period changed dramatically. In the realism period, women still have not gotten any equal rights, including voting, being in politics, and even being in any workplace. This caused many women to go against their husband or any other man. The stories in the realism time period that portray this is “The Revolt of Mother” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, and “A New England Nun” by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Then leading into the modernism period and in the modernism period, the role of women changed to be more expressive and have more individuality. This was when women decided that they did not need a man telling them how to live their lives and what to do with it, so many women either lived by themselves or just thought for themselves while still having a husband. The stories from the modernism period is “A High Toned Old Christian Woman” by
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In “Revolt of Mother,” the woman wants her husband to build a new house cause they one that they have is in horrible shape. instead , the man builds a new barn because that is what he wants. So, instead of the woman agreeing and conforming with her husband, when he is gone, she decides to move into the barn and make it the new barn. However, instead of the man being mad at the women he is just shocked and ask why, which is the complete opposite of how a man would act in the realism period (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman “The Revolt of Mother”). This is when women started to go against their husbands or any man, but still listened to them and did what the man wanted. “The Revolt of Mother” portrays the best of the role of women in the realism time period by showing a woman going against a man but still having acceptance with the
In “Revolt of Mother,” the woman wants her husband to build a new house cause they one that they have is in horrible shape. instead , the man builds a new barn because that is what he wants. So, instead of the woman agreeing and conforming with her husband, when he is gone, she decides to move into the barn and make it the new barn. However, instead of the man being mad at the women he is just shocked and ask why, which is the complete opposite of how a man would act in the realism period (Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman “The Revolt of Mother”). This is when women started to go against their husbands or any man, but still listened to them and did what the man wanted. “The Revolt of Mother” portrays the best of the role of women in the realism time period by showing a woman going against a man but still having acceptance with the