The "Threaded Bead" explores the societal perception of a career woman. This paper, therefore undertakes a linguistic stylistic analysis of the text with the aim of establishing its style in addition to interpreting its meaning. The method used is descriptive and analytical. The work appraises linguistic features such as: the grammatical, graphological, phonological and lexicon semantic features embedded in the text. In doing so, it explores themes such as: loose moral life, career woman, cultural alienation, female exploitation, marriage failures. The study concludes that modern feminist writers like Akorede use appropriate stylistic techniques to explore the role and perception of educated women in a typical African patriarchal society.