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Summary Of The Letter To George Wilson

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During the 1800s, the males were the ones that were in charge of providing a stable household for their wife and children. And as for the women they would stay at home and take care of the house and children. George Wilson was in this situation, but his father, Joshua Wilson and his sister, Sally Wilson, did not think that George was ready to marry out and to start his own family.
From the two letters from Joshua and Sally Wilson, George is put into a lot of pressure to find the ideal wife that can take care of the household even without George around. Even though George is not ready to support a family, physically and financially, he should begin to fix his situation so that that he can find a wife that he can support. From Sally Wilson’s letter, her main message to George Wilson is to be financially stable because a women does not want to marry a man that has no way to support her. With this idea there is more pressure on the ideal husband since, during the 1800s the idea of women working did not exist yet. The males were given at lot of pressure on the males since they were the ones that had to be the breadwinners. As for the letter from Joshua Wilson’s letter, his father, he warns George about being head over heels. He wants to inform George that he should postpone his marriage if …show more content…

He is not saying that premature marriage is not the worst thing but strongly believes that there is no need to rush a

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