The Good Old Days

Women without voices or opinions, women with very few choices in their own lives, women who totally stood by the men in their lives…those are the pictures we see today of women from generations long ago. Perhaps those were the “good old days” for the men of the world, but perhaps women today feel differently. In the short stories “Eveline” by James Joyce and “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, images of two …

…of even better days to come. The roads of today have forks in them; the direction we turn is our choice. Scott 3 Works Cited Faulkner, William. “A Rose for Emily.” Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day, and Robert Funk. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1999. 4-6. Joyce, James. “Eveline.” Literature and the Writing Process. Ed. Elizabeth McMahan, Susan X. Day, and Robert Funk. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice, 1999. 315-320.