In life, people suffer the conflict between remaining true to themselves and achieving others expectations. The similarities of both “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Type” is that women are trapped in a repressive and unequal society. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a submissive and humble woman. She is faced with a situation that seem innocent and natural, but actually that is oppressive. As she states, “[she] takes phosphates or phosphites - whichever it is” based on the instructions of her husband. In order to please her husband, she attempts to ignore her growing frustration and mental illness instead of consisting her own opinion of mental illness. She changes herself by deeply hiding her true thoughts from the outer world which
