Children's Mom By Jane O Connor

I believe this story is full of examples of women being treated as if they were the lesser sex, but there are two examples that really stand out to me. The first example is how the children’s mother is treated. She is proven to be the lesser sex multiple times subtly throughout this piece. She is shown as the primary care taker of the children not the father, Bailey. The mother isn’t driving the car that the family took on their trip, but instead, Bailey is (O’Connor 297). Also the mother is holding the baby, which in an antifeminist society is the woman’s job. The author also oppresses the mother because she provides her with barely any dialogue to either help or hinder the story. Even as her children are led to their apparent death, she stays