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"A New England Nun" is a commentary meant to show how stereotypes concerning women and marriage don't always apply. Looking at the story through a gender based feminist lens allows readers to understand that the author purposely went against social norms and stereotypes to spread awareness on male dominance in marriage.

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Reading this quote as a man would make Joe sound like the honest and loyal one here. Men at the time had the innate mentality that the woman was lesser, this would make men at the time feel like Joe was being overly kind to his woman by being more loyal than necessary. Reading this quote as a woman might produce a different reaction. A woman might see Joe as being a despicable husband because he held feelings for another woman. Women innately having a mentality that a man should be their loyal husbands, so Joe would seem like a terrible husband to a female audience (Basch).

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When thinking about the time this was published, it was very uncommon for women to not want marriage. Though most women were forced into subordinate relationships where the man dominated the woman, women in this time still lived their lives desiring to have a husband (Basch)

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"Louisa sat, prayerfully numbering her days, like an uncloistered nun." (Freeman)

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""I ain't sorry," he began at last, "that that happened yesterday -- that we kind of let on how we felt to each other. I guess it's just as well we knew. Of course I can't do anything any different. I'm going right on an' get married next week. I ain't going back on a woman that's waited for me fourteen years, an' break her heart."" (Freeman)