After I read "The Revolt of "Mother- by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, I was so happy for the mother, Sarah Penn. At the end of the story when her husband says, "I'll--put up the "partitions, an' "everything you "want, mother."" I was so happy to see that he finally saw what his wife really wanted. She was such a good wife and mother that she deserved a new home. For the first time, he showed appreciation toward his wife. If she would not had put her foot down and changed things, nothing would have changed. He saw that there was strength in her, and she definitely showed it. .
The story begins when Sarah finds out her husband is building a new barn. She is angry about it because he promised her forty years ago, when they were first married, that he was going to build her a new house. Sarah is a very loyal wife and a good mother. She respects her husband, Adoniram, but she is tired of living in a house that is way too small for their children, and all the other daily work she has to do in it. She finally puts her foot down and tells him what she feels, but he does nothing about it. After he leaves for a couple of days to find a horse, Sarah realizes that the barn would make a spacious, beautiful house, and moves everything into the barn. At the end of the story, her husband seems to really understand his wife.
The author points out the change of society over the years in the relationships between men and women. The story was written at a time when patriarchal families were very dominant. The male was usually the head of the family, whereas, the woman would follow her husband's decisions. Freeman shows how the mother "revolts- in the story by making a decision for her .
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and her family without the consent of her husband. The author did a great job showing how the relationship between the man (husband) and woman (wife) had changed dramatically.
At the end of the story her husband begins to weep, and the author describes his wife at that time, "She put her apron up to her face; she was overcome by her own triumph.
