Scholars have analyzed Al-Tayeb Salih's novel, Season of Migration to the North (1969), and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres (1991) differently. Critics have read the first novel as a postcolonial novel, while A Thousand Acres has been seen to depict family relationships. Yet one major perspective escaping scrutiny in the two works has been the subjugation of women and their consequent resistance to patriarchal domination. Using the feminist theoretical lens, this essay examines these two important novels in the 20th century to uncover the varying impacts of patriarchal tyranny on female subjects against the background of two different cultures, the first set in Sudan and the other in the United States of America. With this method of analysis focusing on structures of female oppression and inequality of rights, this article concludes that patriarchy possesses an
oppressive nature that causes the downfall of society and family disintegration. Important words that are used in the article are oppression, patriarchy, and tyranny.