The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "the yellow wallpaper is about a woman who seems to be dealing with either depression and her husband wants to keep her locked away in the upstairs bedroom of their rental home. Her husband and brother who both happen to be physician think that all she needs is some fresh air and rest but she doesn't seem to agree. She feels that work and writing is the one thing that's really going to help her. Her husband and the people around her try to stop her from doing anything that they feel is going to exhaust her. While she staying in the upstairs room of the rental room she notice something about the wallpaper in the room. it seems has if the wallpaper helps her get in touch with reality. Towards the end of the story she starts to notice a woman. From her point of view it seems as if the womanis trying to creep out of the wallpaper. I feel like the woman she sees in the woman is the woman she is. the more she tries to interpret and understand the woman in the wallpaper the better her conditions become. She gets better and releases the woman from the wallpaper and she frees herself from her illness which frees her from her husband Jolson her life.

The Story of an Hour

            The story of an hour by Kate Chopin, starts with Mrs. Mallard receiving the news of her husband's death. Her reaction to the news is very different from that of other women. From her behavior, one can assume that Mrs. Mallard feels liberated by her husband's death. It seems as if her husband didn’t allow her to live and enjoy her life because she had a heart condition. She knew her husband loved her and that he had her best intention at heart, but he lived her life for her; so when she got the news of his death she felt free.

            Mrs. Millard felt a little resentment towards her husband because he made her feel like a slave to her own heart condition. Mrs. Millard was being kept alive by her husband living a life that she didn’t want to live.

            At the end of the story, her husband comes home and we find out that he’s not dead. Mrs. Mallard however dies. The doctor says she died of “joys that kills’. I feel like it is ironic how the one thing her husband was trying to protect her from ends up killing her.