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Women In Pleasantville
In the film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross, women are looked at as objects. When the husband comes home from work, he expects the wife to be in the kitchen cooking dinner, or already have it ready when he arrives home. Very few women had jobs, their initial job was to be at home doing housework and taking care of the kids. To me, Pleasantville represented women just like that, until the end. The mom ended up leaving her husband and started doing her own thing, which I think is great.
In the short story, “I Stand Here Ironing,” written by Tillie Olsen, the mom considers herself a bad mom. The mom wishes she would have raised Emily differently, smiled more at her, and been there for her. I would not say that Emily's mom was a bad mom,
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