Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And The Story Of An Hour
The Story of an Hour vs. the Yellow Wallpaper "The Yellow Wallpaper," by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "The Story of an Hour," by Kate Chopin, are stories written in the late 1800’s. Women in these days were repressed and did not have the freedom to go and do as they pleased. Both stories were also written from a feminist point of view. The women in these stories are similar as well as different in several ways.
Kate Chopin 's "The Story of an Hour" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's "The Yellow Wallpaper" both used nature and the outside as freedom and success. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” describes, “There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden- large and shady, full of box- bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered …show more content…
Mrs. Mallard comments after learning of her husband’s death, “now there will be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men… believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature” (338). Whereas the narrator says in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “so I take phosphates or phosphites--whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am forbidden to work until I am well again” (565). The narrator’s husband also imposed his will upon her while she believed that work would have done her well (565).
The main characters of both stories crave freedom. In “The Story of an Hour,” “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (338). Mrs. Mallard was feeling trapped in her marriage that she was dreading life with her husband. She felt like she had freedom to look forward to upon hearing of his death. In the narrator’s case in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” she was encouraged to rest so often in her room, that in her mind, the wallpaper took on a life of its own that she felt like she was the one trapped in the wallpaper
Kate Chopin 's "The Story of an Hour" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman 's "The Yellow Wallpaper" both used nature and the outside as freedom and success. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” describes, “There is a delicious garden! I never saw such a garden- large and shady, full of box- bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered …show more content…
Mrs. Mallard comments after learning of her husband’s death, “now there will be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men… believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature” (338). Whereas the narrator says in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” “so I take phosphates or phosphites--whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am forbidden to work until I am well again” (565). The narrator’s husband also imposed his will upon her while she believed that work would have done her well (565).
The main characters of both stories crave freedom. In “The Story of an Hour,” “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long” (338). Mrs. Mallard was feeling trapped in her marriage that she was dreading life with her husband. She felt like she had freedom to look forward to upon hearing of his death. In the narrator’s case in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” she was encouraged to rest so often in her room, that in her mind, the wallpaper took on a life of its own that she felt like she was the one trapped in the wallpaper