Industrialization, urbanization and changing social norms in the United States were great influences in the writing and controversial reception of this work. ... A woman's own expectations were meek because neither her family nor society expected her to prepare for a future other than that of marriage and motherhood. ... As Warren notes, "In the American Dream, woman figures not as the dreamer but as an object in the dream" (6). ... Women began to organize and participate in a great variety of reform movements to improve educational rights as well as individual liberties. ... A marriag...

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Although this sounds noble, it will weaken him and she will eventually feel resentment. 3-A man says he needs her desperately and she is so flattered that she gets involved. 4-She sees a man's potential and feels that with her help he could be great. ... This is a sign that she is reacting to her expectations of who this man is, and not the man himself. ...

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But there is nothing comic about Joyce's vision, for each of the three principal characters are trapped in a web of social expectations and constraints from which it proves impossible to escape. ... But, as Joyce notes, the boarding house is "beginning to get a certain fame," and therefore inducing a respectable man to propose to Polly would be difficult. ... Doran had been employed for thirteen years in a great Catholic wine-merchant's office and publicity would mean for him, perhaps, the loss of his job (James Joyce 40). ... She allowed the relationship to go on without interve...

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Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the era known as the Middle Ages, an era resembling kings, castles, and knights. Behind the famous kings, magnificence castles, and shining armor were the women. In the shadows, a step behind, and not as enchanting, one can find the tale of the medieval woman. C...

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