Monday, March 9, 2020

Women of 1920 essays

Women of 1920 essays Becker, Susan D. and William Bruce Wheeler The New Woman of the 1920s: Image and Reality. Discovering the American Past, A Look at the Evidence. 4th ed. Vol. II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. The first part of the evidence (Sources 1 and 2) consists of excerpts from two best sellers: The Sheik and The Plastic Age. Both of these two sources are fiction but still portray the truth of these times in which they were written. In source 1, a young woman by the name of Diana Mayo is about to leave on a month-long journey through the desert. Lady Conway expresses her feelings of disapproval, by saying that Diana is behaving with a recklessness and impropriety that is calculated to cast a slur not only on her own reputation, but also on the prestige of her country. I feel that men and women should be treated equally. I believe that a woman should be able to do what she pleases to do in life. At this time in history, women were not accepted in that way though. Diana encounters a man that is begging her not to leave, but she clearly expresses that she has no love for the man. She says that marriage for a woman means the end of her independence, and that she has never obeye d anyone in her life and she does not intend to ever obey anyone. I do not believe that a woman loses her independence when getting married, unless she chooses to lose it. The second source is about a high school track star, Hugh Carver that is arriving for his freshman year at Sanford, an all-male college. He and some friends get caught up in fraternity life and begin to drink alcohol. One night he and his friend Carl get drunk and decide to go out on to the town, where two prostitutes tempted them. A football player prevents Hugh from going with these women of trash, but Carl goes along with them anyway. Carl and seven others are diagnosed with a venereal disease a few weeks later and then were expelled ...