In society, one often times sees the stereotype that women are the damsels in distress, needing to be saved by their knight in shining armor. This can, at times, be portrayed in literature with women being depicted as feeble and powerless, while men are seen in the opposite view as powerful and capable. This stereotype is depicted in both Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, where females are portrayed as not being able to help themselves without the assistance of a man. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” is a classic example of an innocent girl needing to be saved. Little Red Cap goes into the woods to deliver baked goods and wine to her sick, fragile grandmother. As she
