In most early century societies women being treated as inferior to men was a societal norm. Women were expected to be seen and not heard, to provide beauty and children but never any input. Women who went against that norm and tried to change it where seen as dangerous and a threat to society. This a common occurrence in every society where whenever anyone tries to change or challenge what had been deemed to be “normal” and “proper” those who oppose it or try to change those ways of thinking are outcasted and branded as fools with delusional tendencies. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright, both narrators face oppression as they try to break free from the societal constraints
