The society we live in imposes a number of different expectations on people and mainly on women. Women had certain expectations to meet, which led to social consequences. From a sociological perspective, society determines what and how we do things because of the expectations and consequences we have. Expectations have changed dramatically over the past few centuries of society. The expectations of women in history were to be housewives and take care of the family, with the result that any freedom they thought they possessed was taken away from them. In the story Pair of Silk Stockings, Kate Chopin demonstrates that women should act like a mother and not be a free person as she wishes. She demonstrates this by stating "...Between feeding the children and straightening out the place...". She says women should act like a mother and put the needs of their children before their own. She can't be her own person since she has children to take care of. The freedom she might have had was taken away when she had children. “She wasn't wearing gloves” in this quote she is saying that as a mother you cannot spend money freely. She has to dress her children and therefore cannot afford this luxury. At that time, gloves were a luxury item. You had to be rich to have any type of fine items, including stockings and other items for women. Women who didn't have them have always wanted these objects because they want to feel free from everything and discover the world from a different perspective. The fact is that when you have a family, your concern is the well-being of your children. The consequence of going against expectations is that any freedom you might have had will be taken away. In the story "Pair of Silk Sto...... middle of paper ...... in the real world. Women in society at that time had very different expectations placed on them and had different consequences with these expectations. In the story "A Pair of Silk Stockings", the freedom that Mrs. Sommers had with the money she found was taken away from her at the end of the story because it s It was a game type experience where it only happened once and that's true. She had some freedom, but as a woman she had societal expectations and those exceeded. her freedom, she had children and they needed her attention In "The Story of an Hour", Mrs. Mallard dreamed of her freedom because her husband had it. Then her husband came home and her. dream ended So the consequence of the women's expectations was that any freedom they had was ultimately taken away from them. In both cases, their hopes of freedom and their actual freedom were taken away from them...