Metaphors By Sylvia Plath

Since before anyone can remember, women are expected to uphold expectations from society that some may say are reasonably unfair. Many of these expectations have been portrayed through writing that has since lasted hundreds of years. Although writing styles and techniques have changed as time progresses, authors have wrote about the same hardships in their work while still adding their own unique voices. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath and Stoner by John Williams, each author explores social expectations of women in post-war America illustrating the influences on literature and its audience. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath, she demonstrates a first person point of view on what it is like to be held to the expectations of childbirth in 1959. This