My Mind is Made Up

My Mind Is Made Up In Mary Wilkins Freeman’s short story “The Revolt of ‘Mother,’” Mother, who is also known is Sarah Penn, has been living in the same home for forty years. Her husband promises to build a new home by the end of the year. The conflict occurs when Mother discovers her husband Adoniram is having a new barn built instead of the new home he promised her. Mother is a typical …

…s exactly what Mother does. She stands up and acts on what she feels and believes are right. And at the end, Mother prevails. “ Sarah put her apron up to her face; she was overcome by her own triumph” (532). As the saying goes, “all well that ends well.” Work Cited Freeman, Mary Wilkins. “ The Revolt of ‘Mother’”. Fictions. 4th ed. Eds. Joseph F. Trimmer and C. Wade Jennings. Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998. 520-532.