Analysis of The Mother's Revolt by Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanThis work will deal with the short story "The Mother's Revolt", written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and it will rely on feminist criticism. Through this criticism, this short story by Freeman is a kind of innovation in literature produced by women. Feminist criticism developed with the rise of the feminist movement in the sixties, and particularly in literature, since the publication, in the United States, of Kate Millet's doctoral thesis "Sexual Politics" in 1970. This slope of literary criticism has challenged patriarchal academic practice. In the short story “The Revolt of the Mother”, we can identify the feminist thought of its author. It does not perpetuate the patriarchal way of doing literature. By this thought, women were/are only allegories, they were/are: erotic characters, through their physical beauty; the madwoman; the incompetent; the fragile; the one who sacrifices herself for the other, like Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, in Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles. Freeman shows us a protagonist who discovers her potential as a citizen, someone who rebels against the moral rules of society and the Church to guarantee her happiness and that of her children. The author focuses on the plight of women whose lives are limited by poverty and imposed social constraints. by their strict religious beliefs and their position as women. Freeman's emphasis relates to her own predicament in the past, when she was not a recognized writer. She was a young woman, humiliated by the condition of poverty from which her family suffered. This forced him to live in a reverend's house, where his mother worked as a housekeeper. The big problem was that she had been in love for a long time with the reverend's son, who didn't love her. This situation in his life may be responsible for improving his thinking on the condition of women..