Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
Volume 13 | Issue 4
The present paper analyses the short stories of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton’s “The Story of an Hour” and “Mrs.Manstey’s View”. The aim of the paper is to analyze how female characters individual needs and desires often conflict with the demands of the society in which they live. It also reveals how society controls and delimits women to achieve their desires in the social world. Both stories feature female characters oppressed by patriarchal power in the form of marriage. Their understanding of gender relationships has undergone substantial changes as they struggle to free themselves from the constraints of marriage.