Women In Trifles

Hard Times
Life for women in the 1870’s- 1930’s was a hard time period for women. Women did not have any rights and had just received the rights to vote. They were not given many career choices. Overall women life was hard and they were not treated equal at all compared to the men. The historical settings in “Trifles”, “Sweat”, and “The Storm” helped provide to the readers the woman’s actions in the different literatures are morally right or wrong.
The historical setting taking place in “Trifles” helped make the woman action understandable. In 1880’s-1940’s time period with everything that was stacked against the women starts to make me feel what she did was okay. She had no choice. She was trapped and had no way out. I look at it like this,

This story describe two affairs taking place with two of the wrong people out of lust. Calixta was in love with Alcee but was married to Bobinot. In the historical time period they were not suppose to talk to one another because they were not in each others class. Time passed and they started to see how much they had and common and really started to fall for one another. So Alcee told his parents he wanted to marry Calixta. With them not being in the same class meaning one is wealthy and one is poor Calixta person told him no. They told Alcee he is going to marry Clarisse, because her family was wealthy and owned a lot of land. So Alcee obeyed her parents and married Clarisse, but still had feelings for Calixta. Then one day it was storming and Alcee came to Calixta house when Bobinot was gone. Calixta and Alcees started to become very intimate with one another. Alcee states, “ The contact of her warm, palpitating body when he had unthinkingly drawn her into his arms had aroused all the old-time infatuation and desire for her flesh” ( Chopin). That was he really wanted to be with and she really wanted to be with him and on that day they finally met up and feel in love with each other all over again. “Despite the passage of time and their marriages, Calixta and Alcée’s passion for each other has not abated. As they stand at a window, lightning strikes a chinaberry tree. Calixta, startled, staggers backward into Alcée’s arms; this physical contact arouses “all the old-time infatuation— in Assumption, Calixta” (Chopin). Historically dealing with the time period it stop them from being with one another. I feel it is morally ok for her to be happy and do whatever with the person that makes her happy and instead of the person someone is telling her or him they are suppose to be