Compare And Contrast The Yellow Wallpaper And The Story Of An Hour

Jonathan Ramaker Mrs. Kronado American Literature April 12, 2024 Freedom of Women Women all thought the world was always treated wrong because they lived in a patriarchy where men always ruled over women and it still is shown to this day. The “Yellow Wallpaper” is a short written in the late 1800s by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. This story is about a woman living in the late 1800s who is not getting the help she needs because she does not yet understand how the brain works. At this time she had a kid, so she went through Postpartum Depression. Her husband is a doctor but he cannot understand what is wrong with him and he thinks she is just faking it or crazy. In the story, they go to this house that seems like a psychiatric house based on the
Overall, both of the women wanted to be free. The unnamed narrator and Loise had many similarities and differences at the end of the story. They both have something wrong mentally, but Louise feels trapped in this relationship and can not stand it anymore. But in “The Yellow Wallpaper” she just goes crazy at the end of it and doesn't want anyone to touch her wallpaper. Another similarity and difference is that their husbands both truly love them, but in the “Story of an Hour” Louise sometimes loved her husband, but she felt like she was stuck in it about wanting her freedom. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the unnamed narrator loves her husband through and through, even when she goes crazy she stands over him like she is saying that he is her property. The final similarity and difference is that even though they were both struggling with something mentally, Louise from “Story of an Hour” kept to herself and didn't want to talk to anyone. Though the unmanned narrator wanted to get help, everyone she spoke to would not believe her because her husband was a high-level physician at the