"What will yo' mama say?"

"He scraped the mud off Bibi's bare legs and feet with a stick and carefully removed all traces from his heavy brogans. Then, prepared for the worst--the meeting with an over-scrupulous housewife, they entered cautiously at the back door." (145).

These few lines from "The Storm" written by Kate Chopin represent a large change in the attitudes and respect towards housewives from "The Revolt of 'Mother'" and this story.  The men are nervous about returning home dirty to the housewife because they assume she will be mad. In "The Revolt of 'Mother'" the husband shows no respect or any signs of nervousness when his wife sees a barn being built instead of a new house.  The change in roles of women is remarkable and is showing the progress women were starting to make at the time to becoming more equal and having more respect.