In the early times they were mostly mothers, house wives, and care takers. ... The setting of the story takes place in the season of spring, in a house. ... Mallard started to decent the stairs when suddenly, Mrs. ... Mallard collapsed because as she was descending down the stairs, she saw her husband, Brently, he was still alive. ...
Penelope was the paragon of marital devotion and fidelity. Penelope showed us exactly of how women's character was to be played out. They were beautiful, intelligent, and submissive to their husbands and/or other men. The fact that Homer continuously mentions Penelope's beauty shows us that this fe...
Godwin's protagonist is not so much dissatisfied with the traditional role of mother, wife, caretaker and house keeper, but rather quite unhappy with the fact that she feels inadequate in this situation. ... As she opened the door, it was easy for her to clasp her hand around her sister's waist and walk down the stairs. ... Mallard's euphoria was short lived as she came to the bottom of the stairs, saw Richard waiting for them and heard the door opening. ...
In order to correct the problem it was decided that at night "after midnight" (623) they would sprinkle lime around the house and into the cellar, thus avoid confronting Miss Emily. ... Upon Miss Emily's death after the "ladies at the front door" (627) were escorted in and they "knew there was one room in that region above the stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced" (627), they would discover what can happen when "heroic isolation pushed too far ends in homicidal madness" (Brooks 191) when they discover the decayed remains of Homer Barron lying in...
The woman in the wallpaper is imprisoned in the domestic sphere, in which women are expected only to clean the house and take care of the children. ... The exterior of the mansion is described as a series of closed-off sections, while the room she rests in, with its numerous barred windows and immovable bed, was probably formerly used to house an insane inhabitant. ... It creeps all over the house. I find it hovering in the dining room, sulking in the parlor, hiding in the hall, lying in wait for me on the stairs" (584). ...
Because she is being forced to stay in the attic of the old house, she is also being kept, figuratively, in the "attic" of her mind (Twentieth 111). ... Bechelard goes so far as to say that the house can be seen as a small version of the world and the social problems that burden it (Twentieth 110). ... While describing her room and surroundings, she makes the reader suspicious when she mentions barred windows and nailed down beds, but the gate at the top of the stairs and rings on the wall go beyond suspicion (Kennedy and Gioia 426,429). ...
