Aawakening,Yellow Wallpaper, White Heron, As I Stand Here Ironing, Artwork Critical Analysis

Traditionally women who practice a certain art have struggled in their lives and experienced conflict between their hopes to become professional and between the traditional roles that would often hold them back. In literature some of these women’s stories are like fairy tales, myths, or fantasies come true. In Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron,” Sylvia’s fairy tale life shows the artistic tendencies waiting to come out in a young child. A.…

…although as readers we do not know what the future holds, it is likely she will be a success. If it weren’t for her family, especially her mother, helping her to use bad experiences in her favor, she may have never been able to do so. Unlike the artists who give in to the pressures of family or loved ones not to create, Emily had the loving support and continued to entertain and thrive.