because they were expected to be like that. Moreover, women started to seek self-realization and began to write their experiences. Women writers told a more varied and complex stories about the realities of their lives that they were responding to and were shaped by the new circumstances.
When we look at the stories we have read so far which like "The Story Of Avis" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, we can learn about women's opinions in this period. In these stories, women writers examined the stresses for women of marriage and family life. However, I think that their stories shed light to some conflicts in societies and women's own expectations and desires for marriage and motherhood. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett expressed and explored the realities of women's lives after marriage in their fictions. I think that they are to be accepted the vanguards of self-realization. Their work was seemingly encouraged by increased acceptance of women's aspirations and talents. .
These women writers wrote a series of post-war fictions and these fictions frequently took an important place in American literature. I think that their romance plot beyond its interesting endings have showed the realities of women's lives after marriage. In all of these stories, heroines" often tormented consciousness of conflict. .
In Phelp's "The Story Of Avis", the heroine's artistic talent wastes away under the needs of the daily domestic routine. The protagonist of this story is Avis. She's a married woman who couldn't develop her creativity, assumed the many domestic responsibilities expected for her. Furthermore, Avis means a bird in a cage and symbolizes the woman. She expects to become a good painter in the beginning of the story, however she becomes a housewife.
