Housewife

free your life must feel! MRS. LINDEN. No, Nora; only inexpressibly empty. No one to live for! [Stands up restlessly.]” (1.6.50). Friedan comments on the occurrence of women that adjust to the housewife role, like Mrs. Linden, “Women who ‘adjust’ as housewives, who grow up wanting to be ‘just a housewife’, are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they are suffering a slow death of mind and spirit”. All Mrs. Linden knew during her life…

daughter, Anna-Kat. The Ottos are merely a middle class family and in Westport “homeless people have better stuff than we do” (Dunn, 2016). Not only are they considered to be poor according to Westport standards but Katie is the “second fattest housewife in Westport” (Dunn, 2016). Westport represents the American dream and is filled with seemingly perfect wives and their perfect children. Oliver, Katie’s son, romanticises this concept of the American dream and is determined to one day achieve…

Although the novels have various stories, sometimes a novel could be compared with another novel. It is because they have the same case and could be analyzed by the same theory. Such as, Little Women (1868 and 1869) by Louisa May Alcott and Everything I Never Told You (2014) by Celeste Ng. Little Women (1868 and 1869) talks about four sisters and among all the sisters, there is one that is an ambitious woman named Josephine March, which is also known as Jo. She wants to break the role that a…

While Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique captured the all-so-common “housewife syndrome” that plagued women like Friedan all across America, it failed to address the full range of problems that every other woman faced, not only in America but worldwide. And while expecting Friedan to address all groups of women and their individual struggles is impractical, she makes the assumption that the problems detailed in her book apply to all women. In reality, the “problem that has no name” is a…

The setting of That 70s Show is crucial to understanding why there are so many gender stereotypes depicted in the show. This was a time where women were considered inferior to men but, this is not the case nowadays. Every character in the show fulfils some type of gender stereotype. For the male characters, some of the stereotypes are still around in our society today. As for the female characters, society has moved on from the stereotypes placed on women and accepted the fact women and men have…

Unlike “The Awakening,” Gilman also allows the reader to venture into the demented mind of a housewife that has been driven to insanity by the constant pressures of her life through the use of first person writing. It is very clear why she has the “condition” that she has fallen under. The society’s rules for women is so ingrained in her mind that…

Mary Maloney, the protagonist in the story, is portrayed as a loving, traditional, and accommodating housewife. Firstly, she is very loving and affectionate to her husband. For example, she immediately put aside her sewing and happily greeted her husband with a benevolent, benign welcome when he arrived, rather than a cold, impolite attitude towards him. She had cleaned the living space to make it seem more aesthetically pleasing, and prepared two large glass cups filled with ice ready to…

The Image of a Housewife The summarization of “The Problem That Has No Name,” a chapter from the book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan. The common themes throughout Friedan’s writing are about the concerns, expectations, and fears of the housewives of the middle twentieth century. Friedan’s writing could provoke thought about how the expectations of housewives in the past have shaped the present and how it will impact future. While the housewives of the middle twentieth century…

properties, women could only allow to play the expected role as housewives. However, in the novel The Awakening, Edna didn’t consider herself belong to her husband, therefore she went out home to found her true love bravely. Edna also neglect the housewife duty by developing her talent at painting: “‘I feel like painting,’ answered Edna. ‘Perhaps I shan't always feel like it.’” (57) Unlike Edna, April Wheeler in the movie…

Mary saw that married women carried this burden because of her personal experiences (Encyclopedia Britannica). Mary noticed that women were being taught to fulfill the role of a housewife, which limited them from achieving higher career positions. From her mother and father to her own experiences, injustice and inequality were granted towards the majority of women during her time. She was unable to make immediate change regarding…