The Yellow Wallpaper And Story Of The Hour Analysis

Register to read the introduction… From an outsider’s standpoint, most would suggest that both women were prominently stable and secure in their marriages. Their husbands were not unemployed or inadequate providers for them. In fact if, the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the readers her husband is a physician (Gilman line 7). Financially and materialistically, both women were well provided for by their husbands. Provisions were never an issue in the marriage itself, however, there was still a void that the woman of both stories felt in their lives. The woman in both narratives struggled within themselves which rarely left them time to generate love and affection for their spouses. Louise’s feelings for her husband within “The Story of the Hour” is expressed when she says, “And yet she had loved him--sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter” (Chopin par 13). This lack of love led to feelings of oppression, imprisonment and entrapment by both women. The woman of …show more content…
Even if one were to suggest that their husbands, and situations were extremely different, it is important to comprehend that the feelings of a marriage unfulfilled and the feelings of imprisonment were indeed felt by both women. Both of these characters provide the reader with realistic insight into the problems that can potentially be faced within a marriage. Although both found unfortunate ways of escape for their imprisonment, it can be of extreme value to understand the struggle and experience of both women. For it is through these two women, that society may be able to learn constructive ways to cope and deal with complicated marriages and relationships and optimistically come up with a greater and more hopeful