John Mitchell and Charlotte Perkins Gilman shared commonalities in their opinion of what freedom truly meant. For the both of them true freedom included being independent in your occupation. This meant that regardless of gender you had the right to choose to work and earn your own money and spend that one what you choose. Mitchell had many ideas of what freedom is not. To Mitchell freedom mean not having to spend money you do not have. He did not like the idea that men were working for their families relentlessly, yet could barely provide daily meals. Mitchell felt that no person should know the feeling of hunger. Mitchell supported the law passed for working men and women to be paid in money, rather than being paid in goods. Mitchell viewed