Female Stereotypes in "A Rose for Emily," "The Story of an Hour," and "Eveline"
...gain her freedom. Emily was left alone after her father died, and the townspeople thought that some of her kin should come to her. This would have been the proper way for things to be done during that period of time in the South. Instead Emily lived on her own with only a black male servant. She closed herself up in the house never going out and never letting sunlight seep into the house. The black servant would do all the work, and then if she needed anything from town, he would pick it up for her. The townspeople did not think this was proper behavior either. Emily struggled against what society thought was proper and right for a lady to do and eventually only gained some kind of freedom by shutting out the rest of the world. Like Emily, the main character in “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard wanted to be free because she felt bound by her marriage and her husband. When Louise Mallard was told of her husband’s death, she “opened and spread her arms” because she saw the years ahead of her a...