Complete Opposites

When it comes to the role of Women in society  the character of Edna and Thorsteins Veblen's theory of the Leisure Class are completely different. Edna is a character that was pretty much created to show how women can defy social constructs. Whether it be within relationships, being a mother, and more. While, Veblen's theory puts women down and mainly talks about women doing duties in the house as their role. Kinnan states that Veblen argues that " The wife, then, becomes a servant who is required to preform these functions, not to establish anything about her own economic strength but to assert the economic power of man." Veblen's theory constantly refers to women as having roles like this which is opposite of the role of women that Edna portrays.