contrast the plots in “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”. I will examine the similarities of the protagonists on their pursuit to physical and emotional freedom, and the setting of which each story takes place. For example, Mrs. Mallard feels restrained in her marriage, but senses freedom in her brief becoming of a widow, and the narrator in the yellow wallpaper feels trapped in a mansion where she is forced to recover, but feels free when the yellow wallpaper is torn away. Both women
Short stories are thought of as shortened life lessons or entertainment. They're written to expand imaginations while telling people about the world and all it contains. One individual could argue that these stories, in addition, illustrate the author's emotions and past. One such story that shares those feelings in a personal way is the The Yellow Wallpaper. Charlotte Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is her emotional account of having postpartum depression in the late 1800's. This will be proven in
ignorance towards the ‘hardest things’, even to her own family. Gilman, a feminist writer, uses characters in her often satirical short stories to highlight the experiences of a woman living in an overwhelmingly patriarchal society. Her most famous story, The Yellow Wallpaper records her ‘narrow escape’ from ‘complete mental ruin’ , and, along with her other stories expounds truths about feminine injustice. Wharton looks at the relationships one man has with two women; one