Question

Read the excerpt from the play A Man's World.

FRITZ—But you see you make dem talk when you do foolish things.
FRANK—Foolish? You mean going out alone? Good Heavens! You don't supose I'm going to give up all my chances of seeing and knowing and understanding just because a few silly people are talking about me?
FRITZ—But you are a woman. You must not expect people to trust you—too much. FRANK—I'm not going to spend my life explaining.

Which feminist literary theme of the early- to mid-twentieth century is best reflected in this excerpt?

Answer 1

Answer: Women feel pressure to conform to society’s expectations.

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Answer 2

The literary theme here is that women have a difficult time because nobody takes them seriously, or at least that's what it was like in the first half of the 20th century. Many people believed that women shouldn't be taken seriously and shouldn't have things like voting rights or rights to work or similar things because they were considered to be less serious than men, and that's putting it nicely because many people were not nice to them.