write an essay to compare the woman Mrs. Mallard from "Story of an Hour," the speaker in the poem"Caged Bird," and the mother in the photo entitled the "Migrant Mother."

Question

What similarities do they have? What differences do they have? How does each of these individuals deal with their oppression? Do you agree or disagree with the point of view presented? How would you change the problem of oppression?

Answer 1

I think that the key here is the type of oppression that these women are experiencing. Mrs. Mallard is a white woman of privilege who is oppressed by the institution of marriage. The speaker of Angelou's "Cage Bird," by way of contrast, is a person of ethnicity who exists within systems of oppression which keep them from experiencing freedom. The subject of Lange's "Migrant Mother," in turn, is a white woman suffering class oppression in the context of the Great Depression.