The Yellow Wallpaper, And The Jury Of Her Peers

The Cost of Being Free During the Progressive era, husbands ruled their house and everyone in it. Women during this time had no voice in any important matters nor important decisions. Thus the women decided to take a stand a write a revolutionary literary work. All three female authors of “ The Story of An Hour”, “Yellow Wallpaper, and “The Jury of her Peers” develop stark characterization through their female protagonists, introducing contrasting traits to prove that all women during this era although individualists, showed characteristics similar to one another.
Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is known as one of the most revolutionary books in American History. Mrs. Mallard was taken into great care at all given time due to her heart …show more content…
It changed the way researchers and doctors looked at the “rest cure”. Many individualists thought the rest cure had a positive effect on healing mental illness, but in fact had the complete opposite effect. The rest cure was where a person was to lay in bed and to do nothing for months on end to regain energy and their will to live. The “Yellow Wallpaper” is different from any of the other short stories because the main character suffers from a mental illness at the end of the story where the other females do not. Their mental stability is in excellent shape, although Louise suffered from a physical illness. Furthermore, their marriage was based on fake help and lies. Mr. John thought his treatment was helping her, but indeed was making her psychotic. Many readers blame John for her going mental, but others blame here environment. Mr. John is different from the other gentleman in the short stories because he genuinely cared for his wife and wanted better. The other men did not care about their wives and mistreated them. In “Jury of Her Peers”, Mr. Wright simply killed her bird, yet this drove Minnie over the …show more content…
Minnie Wright killed her husband and Mrs. Peters found the only evidence that could look her up. Her husband, Mr. Peters, and Mr. Hale made comments that she did not like and she realized that she was tired of being “married to the law” (Glaspell 161). So Mrs. Hale took the evidence and hid it in her purse and they left the scene as nothing ever happened. This story is altered from the others by the women. These women each had a conniving trait in them as they resented their husbands. Many believe Mrs.Peters is the main point of the story as we are reading about her trying to figure out the murder and her marriage life. This story varies from the others because this is a murder/mystery when the others are not. Thereafter, The other ladies did not murder their husbands as Mrs. Minnie did in his sleep by strangulation. Many could not believe that a woman during this time could pull off such a heinous act. This setting is also different as both Mrs. Louise and the wife both lived in the city and both enjoyed it. Mrs. Minnie lived in a house in the country that you could you barely even see and she loved it. “It had always been a lonesome-looking place. It was down in a hollow, and the poplar trees around it were lonesome-looking trees” ( Glaspell 143-144). To conclude, Mrs. Minnie exhibited her lack of freedom through the confinement of