ried for financial support.Men, in the 19th century did not have respect for women. After the marriage, the women was consider as a "toy" and as an "animal" to men. "Essentially, the wife "belonged" to her husband. He had a right to the person and prosperity of his wife; he could use gentle restraint upon her liberty to prevent improper conduct, he could beat her without fear of persecution. Thus, it was very clear that the wife is dead in law"-Barbara Welter, The American Woman. Women had to suffer all this treatment because it was their choice. They would get marry and be financially secured or they would be single and support themselves. Most of them choose the first choice because; working was worse then some of the tortures of the men. "As time passed, daughters' employment gradually shifted from self-sufficient homemaking for their own families or for families as live-in domestics, to putting-out work for income for their own or other families within a home, to wage labor outside of the home in the factory."-Shanny Meide, Women's work, p.139 If one can see this situation with a critical aspect, one can think that the best solution would be of doing a kind of revolution to show that without them, the world would be going crazy. In our daily life, women are doing a lot of things, even though we don't realize it. "Hindered at first, by not having official power, the women did their best with the insidious, left-handed influence that always was recommended to them by men." -Winnifred Harper Cooley, A dream of the, p.209 This shows the power and the abuse of men toward women in the 19th century. In conclusion, "A dream of the 21st century", written by " Winnifred Harper Cooly", is about a young women's dream about the 21st century. The story clearly shows that the reason why she is having such dreams and thoughts is because the situation of the women in the 19th century was not good. Women would marry someone to overcome financial diff...
