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The purpose of this paper is to define identities of the women, Mrs. Mooney in "the Boarding House" and Mrs. Kearney, "A Mother." They have been generally criticized by many critics as vulgar philistines who exploit their daughters for their greedy covetousness. But I insist that the women should not be, even though they are not always innocent, considered as rapacious egoists. They are entrapped by the forces of male authority and Dublin, a paralyzed city, in Ireland which has long been suffered from the Great Famine. Their hope and dreams are subject to be baffled and frustrated easily. Mrs. Mooney is described as "a woman who was quite able to keep things herself." Her primary plan to make her daughter happy, however, is to be failed in the long run. Mrs. Kearney is a capable woman who accomplishes a good deal - but only as long as acts as the men of the Committee expect "a lady" to act. As Florence Walzl suggests, "Women in "The Boarding House" & "A Mother" have been particularly vulnerable to societal pressures." Therefore, they never have their will and succeed in their lives in the dusty, stuffy and dirty surroundings, men or milieu. As a result, it seems reasonable to conclude that the women, as two representative mothers in Ireland, should be characterized as social victims.