mation at last. To every woman a happy ending" (Piercy l.24=5).
In all three of the works, happy endings may be wished for, but not achieved. Beyond these three works, however, our world- our wired world of TV where happy endings occur in thirty or sixty minutes, happy endings are expected, hoped for, worked hard to achieve, and the downside is that happy endings seldom occur.
There are many incidents of oppression in marriages. But, oppression is not really the same as abuse. Not physical abuse, at any rate. And yet, men are still often regarded (or accused) of being women's "Masters": "In October 1969, an article in Psychology Today entitled "Women as Nigger" quickly led feminist activists to make parallels between the :oppression of women" and the oppression of blacks. Men were characterized as the "master," or "slave holders" and this parallel allowed the hard-earned rights of the civil rights movement to be applied to feminist issues" (BC Fathers online 1).
One does not immediately sense a feeling of oppression or desperation in the narrator of
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