Down here they do everything”. Every chapter in My Brilliant Career seemed to include a comment on the roles of women, it was of great important in the story. The women were the caretakers yet the men were the leaders of the family “My father, like most men when under the influence of liquor, would allow no one but himself to handle the reins, and he was often so incapable that he would keep turning the horse round and round in the one place.” Back in those days “A woman is but the helpless tool of man — a creature of circumstances.” And Mill’s Franklin went out of her way to show