The irony of Celia's desire for the honor and glory of "Mrs." before her name in Cooke's "how Celia changed her mind"

Élida de Oliveira Barros Pessoa

Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica da Paraíba (CEFET-PB) Brasil

Nadilza Martins de Barros Moreira

Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) Brasil

Resumo

Marriage, in the nineteenth century, was seen as the destiny of women who were raised to be mothers and helpers but not providers. But women, little by little, began struggling to be recognized, to become visible, to have equal rights. The short story How Celia changed her mind, written in 1891, shows through Celia Barnes, the protagonist, how distressing it is when a woman does not follow the pattern of subordinate women that society requires thus, it deals with up-to-date facts very much present in many women´s lives nowadays, even having been written more than a hundred years ago.

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Marriage; Feminism; Rose Terry Cooke


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18265/2447-9187a2003id7804

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