In the stories “The Yellow Wallpaper”, “The Story of an Hour”, and “Silk Stockings” it was all about women who wanted something. What they truly wanted more than anything was freedom. They wanted freedom from their home, freedom to do what they wanted, and most importantly freedom from their husbands. Each women felt trapped and they wanted to get away from the life they had now. To receive freedom was impossible for women before the 1900s.
In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman who just had a baby was put in a room to rest. Going over the story was difficult. The women in the story started hallucinating and not knowing what was real or not made it difficult. She saw a lady in the wallpaper and later on the reader finds out that the lady is actually her. Her husband was the one who kept her there and made her crazy. She was forced and now she wanted out, he was the cause of her distress. “I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia, but he said I wasn't able to go.” …show more content…
Mallard, Louise, thought that her husband was dead though instead he wasn't. This story was written in the 1800s a time where women weren't free to do what she pleases. When Louise heard that her husband might be dead she grew optimistic. At first she was depressed however she realized that she could be free. No more being tied down by a man. Though in the end her dreams were crushed. “It was Brently Mallard... He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.” However it really wasn’t the cause of
In The Yellow Wallpaper a woman who just had a baby was put in a room to rest. Going over the story was difficult. The women in the story started hallucinating and not knowing what was real or not made it difficult. She saw a lady in the wallpaper and later on the reader finds out that the lady is actually her. Her husband was the one who kept her there and made her crazy. She was forced and now she wanted out, he was the cause of her distress. “I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia, but he said I wasn't able to go.” …show more content…
Mallard, Louise, thought that her husband was dead though instead he wasn't. This story was written in the 1800s a time where women weren't free to do what she pleases. When Louise heard that her husband might be dead she grew optimistic. At first she was depressed however she realized that she could be free. No more being tied down by a man. Though in the end her dreams were crushed. “It was Brently Mallard... He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease--of the joy that kills.” However it really wasn’t the cause of