Essay Comparing Story Of An Hour And The Yellow Wallpaper

Similarity of two characters Women today are happier, because they have the same rights as men. They can participate in the work force and have freedom and independency in marriages. However, women in last century were less lucky. From story, we learn the life of women in the old days when Women had to stay home all the time doing housework and nurture their children, and serve their husbands. They were not allowed to their own decision under their husbands’ authority, and they didn’t have much social activities.
If women today have to live in the traditional ways, will they be mentally and physically unhealthy? The Story of an Hour and The Yellow Wallpaper are both written in nineteenth century. At the time when Men are dominant in society and marriages. The two stories have a similar theme, which is the women are unhappy in their marriage. Comparing Mrs. Mallard who is the
The narrator is powerless changing her condition. Her condition is getting worse and worse. She isn’t quite allowed to doubt her husband since he is “wise”, she doubts herself, and she get more and more confused. Powerlessly, hopelessly, she lay in the bed most of the time. She turns all her attention to the yellow wall paper. She sees the patterns of the wall paper is bar, and the women behind the wallpaper is trying to get out. “And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern—it strangles so;” all these details reveal she has no freedom. She desires and fights for freedom by peeling the wall paper to help the “women” get out the wall paper. Finally, she gets her “ freedom”. “"I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!"” (Gilman,326) therefore, desired for freedom and independent are the two characters have in