Woman foundation in early 19th century
...who did not have guidance from their mothers during that time, they became extremely lustful. “She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance and youth.” (3) This was what most young women were expected to be quiet, intelligent and modest. Students in a classroom can use these images and characteristics to connect to why women were looked down upon. It is obvious in this novel that men view woman as simply doormats, or slaves. They were always wearing clothing inconvenient for doing their “duties” in the household such as dresses. Carrie, the protagonist in the novel, starts out as a poor young woman who begs for jobs in sweatshops but later, driven by lust, becomes a mistress of a wealthy man named Drouet. “Now she would have a nice new jacket! Now she would buy a nice pair of pretty button shoes…she had got beyond, in her desires, twice the purchasing power of her bills.” (86) From the poor starving Carrie, to the rich and almost famous Carrie, the reader can get any woman of any class in the nineteenth century. Not only can this novel depict women, it also could reveal the state of mind women were in. Women during this time did not think about independence...