Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “The Revolt of the ‘Mother’” is a classic example of gender stereotyping or gender roles. The “mother” in this story is at first depicted as submissive, fitting into the role of the obedient wife that women of that time period were supposed to play. On the o...

In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl”, the mother seems to be a no-nonsense working day wife. The entire story is the mother telling the daughter the smart way to do all the household chores, from ironing her fathers pants to how to grow okra. While many may read the story and believe the mother is a de...