Analysis of The Revolt of 'Mother by Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanThis work will deal with the short story "The Revolt of Mother", written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and will be based on feminist criticism. According to this criticism, this story by Freeman is a kind of innovation in literature made by women. Feminist criticism developed with the rise of the feminist movement in the 1960s, and in particular in literature, starting with the publication, in the United States, of Kate Millet's doctoral thesis "Sexual Politics" in 1970. This side of the Literary criticism questioned patriarchal academic practice. In the story "The Mother's Revolt" we can identify the feminist thought of its author. He wasn't perpetuating the patriarchal way of making literature. According to this thought, women were/are only allegories, they were/are: erotic characters, for their physical beauty; the crazy one; the incompetent; the fragile; the one who sacrifices herself for the other, like Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Freeman shows us a protagonist who discovers her potential as a citizen, someone who rebels against society and the moral rules of the Church to ensure her happiness and that of her children. The author focuses on the plight of women whose lives are limited by poverty and social constraints imposed due to their rigid religious beliefs and their position as women. The attention paid by Freeman is related to her difficult situation in the past, when she was not a recognized writer. She was a young woman, humiliated by the poverty her family faced. Which forced her to live in a reverend's house, where her mother worked as a housekeeper. The big problem was that she had long been in love with the reverend's son, who didn't love her. That situation in his life may be responsible for improving his thinking on the position of women.