Linda Grasso short essay on Fanny Fern shows the status of the everyday women’s in a society where it’s dominated by men. According to Linda Grasso she is telling us that a woman has no rights what so ever, and were they are very depended on the men for food, shelter, and clothing. Because women at that time were not able to own any property, couldn’t vote or have a say, and always were deemed as second class citizens. 

One evidences of this male dominated world is on page 7 were Ruth schoolmate wondering why she took so much pain in book, when she is getting more and more prettier, and when the world all knew that is was unnecessary for a pretty women to be smart. This clearly shows that Ruth was unique, and not like the other girls. The other girls knows that if you are pretty you will get almost everything you want in material good, but Ruth doesn’t want that but only love something that is not measured by material goods. Another evidence of male dominance is on page 46 were Daisy was very sick and that she need to see a doctor, but instead of seeing the doctor face to face, only a bottle of medicine was given and as a result Daisy died due to her sickness. The reason why because I think that she did not received the proper medicine for that illness and if the doctor was their then she would have been all right and alive most importantly. So as those two evidence clearly shows that men does not care for smarts but only for beauty and young girls are consider as disposable.