Exploring Freedom: Sammy's Perspective

Freedom is driven by Sammy when he see’s three girls enter the store where he works at with nothing on except for their bathing suits .They walk throughout the entire store just not a care in the world of who sees them with 80 percent of their skin showing. “We’re right in the middle of town, and the women generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the street.” Sammy does not understand why those girls don’t cover themselves, but as the girls walk throughout the store, Sammy is worried about what other people in the store will say about them. All of Sammy’s comments about their hair, and skin and their body shapes are in his head he does not say them out loud because he does not want anyone to hear what he is thinking. Sammy is not free he wants to be free like the girls that are in the store.
When you are

free you do not about the exact number of stores that are in your town. “If you stand at our front doors you can see two banks and the Congregational church and the newspaper store and three real estate offices and about twenty seven old freeloaders tearing up Central Street because the sewer broke again.” Sammy knows too much of the little town his is from. He does not know any other places, he has not been anywhere else. If you are free then you will talk about other places that you have been to.
A fellow co-worker, Stokesies, sees the girls in the store and sees the three girls in the store. Stokesies is twenty-two and married with two babies. Stokesies freedom is gone at such a young age. For example, when he goes home, he has a family to take care of. All of his time and energy and money goes towards his family. He does not care about freedom because he manages to go to work to be a responsible man. “I forgot to say he thinks he’s going to the manager some sunny day, maybe in 1990 when it’s called the Great Alexandrov and Petrooshki Tea Company or something.” He is dedicated to his work so much that he wants to become the manager of the grocery store. Sammy in a way is jealous because Stokesies is a grown man and he does not have to listen to his parents’ rules.
Sammy quits his job and he does not think about the effect later on. Sammy has a job because the manager of the store knows his parents. When Sammy quits the manager says to him, “Sammy you don’t want to do this to your Mom and Dad.” The freedom is gone; he would not have this job if it wasn’t for his parents. Sammy does not want to disappoint his parents, but he feels that quitting his job is the best thing for him to do. “I fold the apron, the bow tie is theirs”. As long as Sammy was wearing the uniform, he was stuck because he could not go anywhere outside of work until he was off. This means that he was trapped inside, with assigned times to leave.
When Sammy has to hear that his manager knows his parents, he is upset because he does not want to live in their parent’s world.

At the age of nineteen, Sammy feels like he is an adult even though he still lives with his parents. He quit his job because of the set back that has been placed upon him because he cannot be free. The three girls that are most likely to be the same age as Sammy showed Sammy that they might have certain features on their body, but that will not stop them into wearing what they want.
In the story of an hour we see that is driven by freedom because Mrs. Mallard does not know how to live her own life because she has to obey her husband’s rules. She does not have a mind of her own because all of her decisions and her life style is all because of her husband. She does not know the meaning of freedom because of the mental and physical abuse that is stode upon her. Mrs. Mallard’s sister comes to inform her that her husband as just be killed in a train accident, when this happens is very excited because she can now do what she wants to do and does not have to answer to anyone, she can now be

free.
Why would you stay with someone if you cannot be free to do what you want to do?! Mrs. Mallard tried to please her husband by doing everything he asked her to do, even if, she did not want to do it. When her sister tells her that she is a widow she becomes so joyful that she starts to think about her upcoming new life with no more house rules. Freedom is when you can relax and not be buried in someone else designed lifestyle for you.
For the story, I stand here ironing we see the struggle of freedom from the mother of Emily. Her mother does not want anything to with because she looks like her father. When Emily is young and she is left alone in her apartment, her mom is practicing freedom from her daughter. Emily’s mom has not tried to give her daughter a chance in getting to know her in the nineteen years she has been living. Emily now knows freedom because her mom thinks she should be on her own at the same age she was.