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“The Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl” written by Harriot Jacobs shows the effect of the protagonist Linda’s and her grandmother Martha’s choice in their lives through different steps, and how those choices are meaningful. This paper examines their resistances to the life of slavery or effort to escape from it happen in the way of their will to come true or in irony. Linda, seeing from the ending of the story, has proved a self-realization. Raising oneself under that kind of circumstance has become a notable issue in the American society of the slavery time and its suppression, limitation, non-moral, and irrationality. Linda’s life is evidence that an individual’s life and the record of it in writing came out from the reality. The grandmother Martha also examples a method of child-care under the slavery. To explain how the highly self-esteemed education has influenced to her granddaughter Linda, and how the results have met the ending and refresh the readers various meanings in the conflicts between social system and individual desire. This paper continues on this and compares the work with the female protagonists in Korean fictions who are also trying to escape from social and individual limitation: Bokryu in “Potato” by Kim Dong-in and Moonja in “Mun-Gedae” by Seo Young-eun. These two characters are more than enough to be used in comparison in terms of demonstrating those who try to overcome unreasonable social construction.