Such small sacrifices as taking the “very smallest piece of pie” had a great effect on how Millie’s mother viewed her life. Through all of these …show more content…
When the doctor’s informed him of the mother’s condition he only thought of himself asking the question “What’ll become of me?” He was in shock because of the news of her worsening condition, so there is no question that he loved his wife. The reliance on his wife and her willingness to be as dutiful as possible bring about the question of the time period of this story. One can assume that this poem was set in a time period where women were expected to care for the home and obey their husbands. The mother states that the father “can’t even find the frying pan.” From this, one can infer that the husband never had to do anything except work and come home to a wife who had the meals ready. We can also tell that he was a selfish man by the way he talked to the mother when she bought her red dress. A person would think that he would gather from her buying of the red dress that she wanted to go out and have a good time with the man she loved. He only made snide remarks that could have only made her question why she bought the dress The mother blamed herself only for the actions of her sons against their wives, but the father’s actions also set a horrible example for how women should be