The Yellow Wallpaper And Story Of An Hour Analysis

Malala Yousafzai said, “we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
Discrimination against women was not frowned upon back in the day and people still do it today.
In these stories it is noticeable to readers and shows what it was like in their shoes. The Yellow
Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour are similar, different, and show that women were looked down upon.
The two stories are comparable in how the narrators are portrayed. Both are women, both have an illness or something is “wrong” with them, and both women are married. The Yellow
Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour also deal with discrimination issues. In the first sentence of
The Story of an Hour, they call the woman, Mrs. Mallard. They don’t mention her first name,
Louise,
until after she is told her husband has died. In the Yellow Wallpaper the woman’s name is never said for sure, but the name Jane is said in the second to last paragraph of the whole story.
It could be her name, since it is a new name to the story and it is at the end. It would also make sense to be her name considering she has just freed herself from the yellow wallpaper in her room. Both stories don’t let the women be independent. Not saying their first name is a good example of that. In the Story of an Hour Louise Mallard also says, “free, free, free!” as she realized her husband was gone and she was her own person now. These two stories have a lot in common regarding the female narrators and how they are treated.
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One very common mistake is to use a quote without introducing or explaining it. Who is Malala, and how do her words apply to the story?
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Awkward wording. What are people still doing? Not frowning or discrimination? See how that sounds odd?

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Even though the Story of an Hour and The Yellow Wallpaper have similar morals and concerns on how the women are being treated, the narrators also differentiate.
The woman in The
Yellow Wallpaper was being taken advantage of because she was mentally ill. The narrator in
Story of an Hour was just thrilled that her husband was gone, so she wasn’t his property or his in general any longer. They were treated differently, for example, in The Yellow Wallpaper the wife was treated like a child by her husband and he was very dominant. In the Story of an
Hour the husband has always been very loving and truly cares for her.
He doesn’t mean any harm to her and respects her.
These stories are both written in the late 1800’s and back then women were more of property and housewives. They didn’t have their own rights. Mrs. Mallard was excited when she found out her husband wouldn’t be back. She could at last be independent! She wouldn’t have to be Mrs. Mallard anymore. The woman in the Yellow Wallpaper never got to make any of her own decisions. Her husband chose what he thought was “right” for her. She obeyed him, as that was what she had to do. Both women in the stories didn’t have a job of their own. They were both housewives and didn’t work. Their husband worked. The wives weren’t allowed to have opinions or do what they wanted in these two stories. The men in their lives could control them.
The Yellow Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour were alike, yet different, and both displayed inequality between men and women. They uncovered what it was like to be living as a woman over 100 years ago. The stories showed us how little women had a say. They have taught us that we shouldn’t let men stop women from being independent. Women are capable of being self-sufficient. Women can do
anything.