Outside The Garden
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In the past it was believed that men were the smarter and stronger of the two genders making them "superior" to women. In time would come the woman's liberation movement bringing many great accomplishments such as woman's suffrage. Until recently it was assumed that the woman had little, if any, importance to society. In John Steinbeck's short story "The Chrysanthemums" (reprinted in Ann Charters. The Story and its Writer. Compact 6th edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. 707-714.), published in 1938, you can feel the slight discrimination of inequality between male and female and how specific it had affected the woman of this time period...