Miss Emily and Miss Millard.
In the short story “The story of an hour” the main character finds out her husband has passed, and her response in front of company is that of grief but when she is left alone she yells freedom over and over again. She has found this freedom she has never been allowed to have as a married woman. In the other story we read, “A Rose for Emily” the main character never married, but she did live with her father for many years until he passed, and then she was freed too. Emily never did marry, despite that being what everyone expected, she was a young woman in a wealthy family, society says that you need a family to carry on the family name. Her father wouldn't allow her to marry, so when he dies she goes looking for a husband. She really does want to be a wife, and she finds a suitor, but he turns her down. Ultimately she kills him and sleeps next to his corpse. Which is definitely not what society expects, woman or not. I found the second story to be much more interesting, perhaps because it is longer is it able to make a more complete story or maybe its because of the murder. I certainly found that is applied to our question “how do women defy societal expectations?” much better. She was a crazy old lady who was widely respected because of her father and grandfathers actions, and because of that she got away with a lot.
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Displayed in this blog post will be a short write up I wrote after reading the story "The Yellow Wall Paper" In the short story, it portrays a woman who is told she is not mentally well but by the end of following what this man “John” says is best for her, she seems worse off. John is a doctor and is keeping her at this house “for her benefit” but she starts seeing people in walls after she gets there so you tell me if it's benefiting anyone. John believes he is helping her because the social norm back then was that the husband knew best. But she knows that he's wrong and to try to gain some personal freedom starts lying to him. In the end, being controlled and not listened to and walked over for 3 months gets to her and she really does go crazy. When before she was probably just going through a rough patch. Not being heard and never having any accountability (in such a personal relationship as husband and wife especially) only worsened her situation. We’ve all felt unheard, even when you know you’re right but they still won’t listen because they don’t think you know anything. As a young woman who works in an industry run by men, I am very familiar with the feeling.
For this maker project we were asked to engineer, prototype, and create instructions for a lantern to be displayed in down town at Napa's Lighted Festival.
At the end I am still proud of the work I did even with all the challenges and design changes, it may not be pretty, but the wiring is well done and it certainly lights up. |
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