The Garden Party 1920s

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The Garden Party
Nothing can match the strength of those whose lives have been shaped and forged through challenging and overcoming hardships. Such people fear nothing. The end of the nineteenth century saw huge growth in the suffrage movement in England and the United States. The women's movement, with its emphasis on advocacy of equal rights, newly formed women's organizations, and the rise of a new generation of female artists, photographers, and professionals, transformed the patriarchal social structure across the globe. The Garden Party shows a opposite view of how women of that time were depicted socially, domestically, and politically.

At the start of the Twentieth Century, women had a very stereotypical role in British society. …show more content…

In the 1920's women could rarely get a job. And if they were to get married, they would get fired and be forced to take on the role of a homemaker. Women wouldn't get many choices for jobs they could only get what was known as 'traditional' jobs like domestic servants, secretaries, nurses, teachers, salesclerks and factory workers. During this time the most important part of a woman's life was catering to her husband's needs. In the Garden Party there was no clear reference of Mrs. Sheridan ever waiting on her husband hand and foot and agreeing with everything he had to say. Actually, when Mr. Sheridan brings up the fact that there was a death in the neighborhood Mrs. Sheridan kind of tries to blow him off. "I suppose you didn't …show more content…

Women no longer wanted to be sheltered from the world and the things going on around them. In 1900 women’s legal standing was fundamentally governed by their marital status. They had very few rights. A married woman had no separate legal identity from that of her husband. She had no right to control her biological reproduction, and no right to sue or be sued since she had no separate standing in court. She had no right to own property in her own name or to pursue a career of her choice. Women could not vote, serve on juries, or hold public office. According to the Supreme Court, they were not “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees equal protection under the law (Sara Evans). Women invented forms of politics by establishing voluntary associations and building other institutions in response to unmet social needs. In the Garden party Mrs. Sheridan went against the norm and had Laura take a basket of food to the dead man’s less unfortunate family. This was definitely not what little girls do. "I know," she said. "Let's make up a basket. Let's send that poor creature some of this perfectly good food

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