In this essay, Pollock went into why American born and French trained artist Mary Cassatt paints whom she paints—women and children. Like most artist, Cassatt paints what she is familiar with and due to the time and place, she was more or less forced to paint what she did. Pollock pointed out such obstacles, whether it is her father disapproval with her education; her choice between a having a productive career or having a family of her own and her appetence into the male dominated art world. Pollock also goes into detail about why Cassatt paints her subjects in the settings that she does. Her paintings capture what I would call the quiet moments mostly between mother and child—moments that her male counterparts will not or cannot capture.