Friend or Foe

Society causes many people to change in a lot of different ways. Some of the characters in Her America have shown this. Minnie Wright who is the wife to late Mr. Wright shows all of these changes. Before she gotten married everyone assumed she was happy but when she was married she was very unhappy most of the time. She stopped doing the things that would make her happy. Society saw her as the ideal wife who would stay home and be a housewife but she was a very unhappy housewife. Two other people noticed the changes in Minnie Wright. Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Wright, the noticed the change but did not tell their husbands because they knew that they would have taken her side when she would go on trial for the murder. The women in this story are told to usually let their husbands do the talking, women were oppressed. Minnie was very timid now, although Mrs. Peter was timid as well she decided to speak up for her friend and try to prove her innocence even though she was guilty. She does so because she is tired of women being treated the way they are. Both characters are very timid but one decides to do the opposite and step outside the box for once and stand up for women.