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

The Yellow Wallpaper vs. The Story of an Hour “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, are very similar with the character, being a trapped woman who craves freedom from her authoritative husband, and theme of the women finding contentment within herself to escape her husband to become a strong and independent women. In both stories the women were described to be unequal with their husbands. During the time these two short stories were written, the early 1900’s, women were seen to be fragile and weak in need of a strong authoritative husbands to protect them. However, the two women described in the stories are going through life changing events which they exhibited in their own …show more content…
In contrast, the narrator’s husband frequently spends his nights in town as part of his duties as a well known doctor. This conflict between husband and wife is the overwhelmingly dominant theme of the story, as the narrator’s attempts to cope with the feeling of isolation and imprisonment. The narrator expresses her loneliness and her feeling of being forgotten by saying “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious”. The depressed woman must resign at home, essentially confined to her bedroom, while her husband John is free to go out and …show more content…
Ms. Chopin uses great detail in her story, which creates an emotional connection between the characters and the readers; “She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who had cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams”. The author wrote with such descriptive emotion to express the genuine emotion of Mrs. Mallard to almost make the reader feel empathy for her. “The Story of an Hour” is also successful due to the amount of detail used to describe the character 's physique and features “She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength”. The details used to described the character gives Kate Chopin’s audience a real mental picture to follow along with a they continue to read further into the short story. Even though Kate Chopin wrote a well written article of literature, there are few corrections she could’ve made to create a masterpiece. “The Story of an Hour” lacks somewhat of a background story to introduce and set up the plot, characters and why Mrs. Mallard was seen to be having conflict with her husband. Kate Chopin, should have explained the period of time and gave a brief history of the plight of women in the 19th century.
In conclusion, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an Hour” are both well