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Freeman’s “Mother” "The revolt of Mother" is an interesting short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who lived, in the late nineteenth century. This short story presents important aspects of Freeman life. Throughout this story ....

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... one place in which it was acceptable for her to be powerful: her home” (Biography to Remember). As a result, Freeman grew up without accepting the critical condition of her own mother. This is one of the reasons that in "The revolt of Mother" she puts mother in quotes to tell us that it was just a title, not a person. "Father", who symbolize her own father, is presented as an unaffectionate father and husband who saw her wife "as immovable to him as one of the rocks in his pasture-land, bound to the earth with generations of blackberry vines (244)." This quote reflects the idea that "father" saw mother as simply an object, like a horse ...