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She must consider what he likes, not only because she loves to please him or because she profits by pleasing him, but because he pays for the dinner, and she is a private servant (pp. 116–117). Gilman is quite brutal in pointing to the fundamental condition of women under capitalist patriarchy: because men control the economic structure of life, women must please men in order to survive. There is no realistic alternative for them, save madness and death. But Gilman proposes an alternative which is grounded in women’s economic independence.
