The stories, Sweat and $100 and Nothing!, are two very similar stories that focus on the husband and wife going through issues of their own during a time period where this type of behavior is not commonly seen. $100 and Nothing is short story about a wife named Mary and a husband named Charles. Mary is a very sweet woman who was running her own business. She marries this sweet man, and everything seems to be going …showed first 75 words of 673 total…

…showed last 75 words of 673 total…he died. These two stories were very similar. The wives in the stories were strong women who kept themselves together even though their husbands did everything they could to knock them down. However, in the end both women succeeded. In the first story the women died but she still got her point across. In the second story the woman’s husband died instead but I believe that he deserved everything that was given to him