The Revolt of "Mother" By, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman In Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "The Revolt of Mother," we see a mother's inner conflict of accepting her role as a submissive wife, the one society wants her to be, and knowing how to handle the resentment from years of living as a subordinate wife to her husband. Throughout the story Freeman uses vivid language to show readers how women were thought as inferior to men …showed first 75 words of 1177 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1177 total…embrace the attitudes expressed by the nineteen-century males. Push to her outer limits Sarah Penn was force to revolt against years of living as a subordinate wife to her husband and the attitude of the nineteen-century male. Her revolt was unlike any the town has ever seen. Some held her to be insane: some, of a lawless and rebellious spirit. RESOURCES Freeman, Mary "The Revolt of Mother." Literature and the Writing Process New Jersey: Pearson, 2002