Holding back from Freedom “Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement,” says Jeannette Winterson. Gender discrimination will always be apart of a woman's life until the day she decides to let it go. This story proves men hold women back from what they truly love to do in life. In the story the wife loves her husband, but she makes it seem like she doesn't like the responsibility of being a housewife. In those days you couldn't just pack up and leave and get a divorce. Married people always stayed together unless you become a widow. Once you were married, you would respond to your husbands rule. Once she was free, she finally could do what she wants. “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath, “free, free, free!”
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““There would be no one to live for her during his coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private upon a fellow creature,” she says (Chopin 763). This supports the theme because men and women are always treated differently. Men always have the power. But women can do the same things that men do.
Men have some many more rights at the time of this story than women. Men would always have absolute power. Men would also have greater value in society, but it would never be explained to why people thought this. Men always had first choice on everything. Back then men even had power over African-American men.
So from the beginning men had to do everything for women. Men always hold women back. Men easily could let women have control. But they were born and raised to know that they always should take care of women. If I didn't take care of their wife, and let them do whatever, it was like almost breaking a law. Some men believe that women should have to do
““There would be no one to live for her during his coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private upon a fellow creature,” she says (Chopin 763). This supports the theme because men and women are always treated differently. Men always have the power. But women can do the same things that men do.
Men have some many more rights at the time of this story than women. Men would always have absolute power. Men would also have greater value in society, but it would never be explained to why people thought this. Men always had first choice on everything. Back then men even had power over African-American men.
So from the beginning men had to do everything for women. Men always hold women back. Men easily could let women have control. But they were born and raised to know that they always should take care of women. If I didn't take care of their wife, and let them do whatever, it was like almost breaking a law. Some men believe that women should have to do