Throughout the book, many wives note how they want to be able to pursue their goals and dreams, but are unable to do so due to the fact that they have responsibilities such as women wife. I think that by putting themselves in a position where they could be seen as undeserving members of the upper class who didn't work, it didn't create a financial dependence on their husbands, it portrayed them as women incapable of supporting themselves or their desires in life. “Upper-class women, like other women, experience dissatisfaction with their roles as wives, with expected coping patterns, with unequal voice in family decisions, and with sole responsibility for the home and family.”