A Streetcar Named Desire And Trifles

Though texts such as A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Glaspell's Trifles and Williams A Streetcar Named Desire gender mistreatment has been proven through multiple texts showing historical evidence of this mistreatment. The message shown in these text states that through time we see gender mistreatment reoccur. Conversations between these listed text describes a history of gender mistreatment in multiple societies and time periods, connection these text together. Showing in greater detail the impacts of gender views in many forms of discrimination and oppression. New historical literary critics declare that history does have many conversations or ways of seeing or thinking about the world in relation

A familiar underlying topic in Trifles by Susan Glaspell where all the women characters were looked at as inferior during that time period similar forms of oppression are seen in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. This issues still reoccurring in society making these text still relevant to audiences across the nation.

In 1916, Trifles was written a time where people begin to get introduced to women speaking up for some of their rights such voting and groups being formed like the National Woman’s Party fighting for women’s suffrage. These such changes did not create a difference in the way women were treated. Behind closed doors women fought not only against societal views of women, but against the oppression from their husbands because of the view societies gave women. In Trifles we see the death of Mrs. Wrights spirit. Which is killed by her husband, assuming she is very isolated from

Virginia Woolf asserts her feminist thought on why there have been so few female writers. Tying being a minority to the very few numbers of men writers to women writers. Through a series of examples and claims she makes to help understand how difficult this time period was for any person who was not a male. During the 1920s the 19th Amendment granted women the rights to vote, we being to see the League of Women Voters educating women about their right and to exercise because this was something very abnormal. Congress tries to makes statements like “Men and women shall have equal rights”. To be a woman during the 1920s she was still to follow behind the lead of her husband. An example of this is seen in her text women are never to make a wage of her own. If a woman was making money of her own it was considered illegal it was to be owned by her husband. She makes the connection with money saying if a woman is unable to own her money, how can she own her own writing? Woolf uses the connection between money and writing because of the feeling of lacking identity a women endured. How can she identify herself a writer in fiction being a woman, but cannot own something as simple as writing? Woman across the world struggle with this issue and currently still do at a much smaller expense. Also as a woman rights to access certain things were limited as well to