The Treatment of Women in Literature

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Throughout history, women have been treated differently in American society during different eras. For example, in the 1920's, women were subservient to men and were expected to physically and emotionally defer to their husbands. Domestic violence was rampant and often unreported. The paper compares one literal personification of the various societal expectations of the time, Susan Glaspell's play "Trifles" with Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," a comic classic of the western genre.

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"On their journey, Potter tells his bride that they are going to go to the diner car and have the "finest meal in the world" since a dollar is not too much for this, their honeymoon trip. Another example of his chivalry is Potter's very treatment of his bride, pointing "out to her the dazzling fittings in the coach" and helping her off the coach at their arrival in Yellow Sky."

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