Similarities Between The Yellow Wallpaper And The Man Who Was Almost A Man

How They Found Freedom When the authorities of a young man and a young woman subordinate them, they try to be unrestricted through compromising actions. Both, the narrator of the Yellow wallpaper, and Dave, protagonist of “The Man Who Was Almost a Man”, have to comply with duties that deal with submission to authority, and high expectations of society. Furthermore, In order to deal with their frustrations, the protagonists find symbols that lead to freedom, and use them to acquire their desires. For instance, the narrator of the “Yellow Wallpaper” canalizes her frustrations through the wallpaper that covered the room where she is secluded, due to a frantic condition caused by her duties in the society she lived in. Furthermore, Dave thinks
The ways they found to fight against their society’s despotism were through the yellow wallpaper for the narrator, and through the gun for Dave. For instance, as the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” is confined to a house, and away from society, the wallpaper is the only means she finds to fight against these ideals. She is looking for a way to be free, and she feels that she would find it by ripping the yellow wallpaper. When she talks about the paper, she expresses how it “makes [her] think of all the yellow things [she] ever saw, old, foul, bad yellow things” (85). By perceiving the wallpaper ugly, she expresses how she exhausted she feels about the old and tiring society she lived in. Most of all, she perceives her society as impertinent and tedious when she says the paper has “two bulbous eyes, that stare at you upside down”, like the eyes of society expecting her to be so proper, the revolting odor with which she perceives her tiresome duties, and the repellant color that makes her feel down and misunderstood (79). Therefore, she fights this oppression by destroying the wallpaper at the end of the story. When she finally tears the paper, she feels delivered from her sense of being
She destroys what made her feel oppressed, and it makes her feel free, as she says “it is so pleasant to be out in [that] great room and creep around as [she] pleases (89). Destroying the paper symbolizes her freedom. Finally, when her husband enters the room, he sees the mess and faints. Then she walks upon her husband and gets out of the room. This also symbolizes that she feels free from his