Roman Fever: Women's Progress

Roman Fever—A reveal of women’s progress
Many people consider Roman Fever as a story that implies envy and comparison are the constant theme among women and it will be a repeating cycle not matter how society makes progress. However, I think this is the story which demonstrates women’s progress both physically and mentally.

The status of women has raised and women have gained more freedom overtime as we can infer from the story. For different generation, Roman stands for different meaning. “To our grandmothers, Roman fever; to our mothers, sentimental dangers—how we used to be guarded!—to our daughters, no more dangers than the middle of Main street.” For Grace and Alida, “sentiment danger” means dangers of love so that they were not allowed