Reflection+on+The+Hard+Worker

 Through looking at __The Grapes of Wrath__, a period of the great migration and at World War II, a person can see the major differences in women because of the possibilities and opportunities that they are able to have. During the Great Migration starved families, went searching for food and work in the West. Stereotypically, men went jobs, while women stayed at home and waited for the men to return. Over the period of 1910-1970 , from the Great Migration to World War II, this image of a staving woman, specifically "//The Migrant Woman//" no longer existed; WWII gave way to the image of "//Rosie the Riveter//." This image encouraged women to play their part in the war, may it be through picking up telephones or becoming a secretary. Women were capable of getting a job, holding it and produce some income. Madeline Ida Bedford was a woman poet who actually wrote about how much she enjoyed her experience working in a factory, but at the same time in her poem there is a sense of irony, especially in the last line: " Worth while, for tomorrow if I'm blown to the sky, I'll have repaid my wages, in death – and pass by.  "  This major contrast of time periods is the focus of one of my walls; women are versatile in to what they can do and have proved to be ** hard workers **.



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