Besides having an absence of equality in their relationships, women were often deemed as property and extension of their men within a marriage, stripping them of their identity, leading them to feel trapped. Often times at a wedding a priest will ask, “who gives this woman away?” and the father of the bride will say I do. That is because before she is married, she is first the property of her father and then her husband. At what time is she her own property? When does the woman of the 20th-century women get to decide who she is and who she is not? Unfortunately, the reality for women of that time was that they never did and as a result, it led them to lose themselves. An example of this can be seen in the short story A Jury of Her Peers, by