Women's Rights In A Rose For Emily

Before the movement was passed for women to have rights in America, women were told what to do by everyone and were never allowed to have their own opinion. In the stories “The Story of an Hour” and “A Rose for Emily”, it was the time period that women still had arranged marriages by their fathers. Emily’s father was never satisfied with any man so she never married. Mrs. Mallard was married, but she did not originally choose to be with her husband. In the story “Girl”, it shows exactly how women were treated. These stories all demonstrate exactly what was expected of women. It shows that women constantly had people telling them what to do, when to do it, and shows how they could not have their own opinions. Emily becomes an even odder character in the later part of the story when she eventually kills the man she loves and never leaves her house. She was never allowed to like the men she wanted because her father was very protective and always turned men down that wanted to marry her (54). When her father died and she could finally make her own decisions in life, she found a man she liked and that she could finally be with but she didn’t know how to handle the freedom. She …show more content…
They had to know how to cook, be the perfect host, and keep a house perfectly clean. If they even walked the wrong way, they would be considered “a slut” to everyone else (326). The writer of this story sounds like she is strict and very judgmental. The writer says the girl must want to be a slut multiple times in the story, meaning the writer thinks that the girl already is one. The girl sounds like she is trying to rebel against these rules that the women of that society follow. She doesn’t care about the rules of that age and she realizes that she should be able to make her own decisions and have her own