Using the GCC databases,Links to an external site. research the history of marriage and the role of wives to contextualize marriage. Zora Neale Hurston and Stephen Crane are two American Authors who depict the institution of marriage in a small town. However, the lives of the two couples in “Sweat” and “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” differ completely. examine the two married couples and discuss how wives and women are valued; in your discussion use direct quotes from the texts. When you have identified specific details that show how the wives are valued, discuss the causes and/or the implications of this value. In other words, show critical thinking. Consider how Crane depicts “the feminine” and how Hurston depicts “the feminine”? Are their depictions realistic? What are the authors saying about marriage? Do race and historical trauma play into the value depicted?
