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A 3 page paper which compares and contrasts the views of marriage and society in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour and Susan Glaspell’s Trifles. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Trifles they are still two stories that clearly illustrate some very similar themes, perhaps timeless themes. They are stories, written by women, which address a womans place in society and
a womans place in marriage. They are powerful, albeit very different, stories. The following paper compares and contrasts the views of marriage and society in the two short stories.
Chopin and Glaspell: Marriage and Society In both of the stories the women are clearly oppressed in a mans society. In Chopins work one sees this through the slow
awakening of the primary character as she realizes what her life will be like without the social constraints of marriage. In Trifles it is seen in the fact that it
is the insignificant women, insignificant in the eyes of the men in the story, who ultimately solve the crime and yet keep silent about the crime. They are all characters
who seem to understand men and society far more than men do. They know that they are intelligent and worthy of independence and thought but also know that men are
the ones who keep control of society and marriage. None of the women speak up, but they are all very powerful and deep individuals that demonstrate the oppression of women
in society, regardless of time. In the time period of Chopins work one assumes it takes place towards the end of the 19th century, when it was written. At this
time women were incredibly oppressed in marriage and it was only through marriage and giving birth that women felt their worth, or supposedly felt their worth. It is noted that
during this time, "Physicians agreed with the theory that all women were frail and weak" which further led to social oppression (Owen). In Glaspells work the time period appears to
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