A Jury Of Her Peers Vs Story Of An Hour

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An initial reading of the stories, “A Jury of Her Peers” and “The Story of an Hour” suggest that they focus on women’s limited role in society as they are unable to tell their own stories, additionally a closer reading reveals that the text examines the drastic effects these limitations have on women’s sanity. Both stories take place during the early 1900s. During this time period, women were not given the same, equal rights as men. Numerous female authors anonymized their writing personas by using male names. Women weren't even allowed to narrate their own stories during this time.
Both stories constantly undermine women's role in society. An example of this found in “A Jury of Her Peers” is when the county attorney, George Henderson, talks
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