In the paintings The Scream by Edvard Munch, and The Gleaners by Jean-Francios Millet there are two very different living situations for the people depicted in the works. The women in The Gleaners find themselves in a very poor living situation. They are in the process of cleaning the fields of any grain left from the harvest. In contrast the women in The Scream is not suffering physical hardship, but her emotions are running wild. …showed first 75 words of 356 total…

…showed last 75 words of 356 total…of MilletÕs painting are the proverbial strong silent type, and the woman in MunchÕs painting is frail and emotional. A viewer can almost hear her scream. Rather than the acceptance for her environment that MilletÕs women have, she is in misery. The changes that come with the modernization of people tend to draw them farther from nature, and closer to people. These changes though gradual, are beautifully demonstrated in these two paintings.