Trapped Both women in "The Yellow Wallpaper,” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, are similar in the sense of seeking freedom due to their husbands and marriage. For it being a male dominant world during this time, women in society weren’t able to do such things as men because it was not their role. Although the women in each story go through different series of events, their response to freedom adds a larger change to their lives. It was around the twentieth century time period in which the women from both stories lived in. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is a young, middle class woman who wants to work and be useful but is not allowed too. Her husband, John, is the one who works and claims he
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Louise hears the news that her husband is dead causing her to weep but, little did any other character know, she is finally at peace. Louise is only able to express her feelings towards her husband’s death behind a closed, locked door by herself. On the other hand, the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is kept in a room for three months by her husband’s command in a grand English mansion they are renting. She too can only express herself through her writing which she has to hide, being stuck in one room. She states, “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal – having to be sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.”(pg. 238). Both women only find comfort in being in one room for a while as their thoughts go …show more content…
She felt a “monstrous joy” and is safe in an armchair where she feels free and keeps everyone else locked out. Louise accepts her thoughts, “And she opened and spread her arms out to welcome them.” (pg. 237). As well as Louise, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is determined to get her freedom and peace of mind. She tore at that wretched wallpaper in hope of setting the woman she saw trapped behind the pattern free, (as the woman trapped is symbolism for the narrator freeing herself). The narrator determines, “Besides, I don’t want anybody to get that woman out at night but myself.” (pg. 247). The lack of self-expression towards nobody but themselves, being alone in a room with their thoughts, triggers the illness of both women even
Louise hears the news that her husband is dead causing her to weep but, little did any other character know, she is finally at peace. Louise is only able to express her feelings towards her husband’s death behind a closed, locked door by herself. On the other hand, the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is kept in a room for three months by her husband’s command in a grand English mansion they are renting. She too can only express herself through her writing which she has to hide, being stuck in one room. She states, “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal – having to be sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.”(pg. 238). Both women only find comfort in being in one room for a while as their thoughts go …show more content…
She felt a “monstrous joy” and is safe in an armchair where she feels free and keeps everyone else locked out. Louise accepts her thoughts, “And she opened and spread her arms out to welcome them.” (pg. 237). As well as Louise, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is determined to get her freedom and peace of mind. She tore at that wretched wallpaper in hope of setting the woman she saw trapped behind the pattern free, (as the woman trapped is symbolism for the narrator freeing herself). The narrator determines, “Besides, I don’t want anybody to get that woman out at night but myself.” (pg. 247). The lack of self-expression towards nobody but themselves, being alone in a room with their thoughts, triggers the illness of both women even