The Yellow Wall Paper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women social class does not immune them from being oppressed by a men. Since, Women are considered to be their properties. Therefore, the oppression of women have long been considered to be the norm so whenever a woman decides to resist, it is an unexpected. The following texts will illustrate two women’s struggles in the 19 century and what each one had to do to empower themselves. In the short story The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The author unlocked the door of a white upper class woman’s thoughts, by taking us inside her home where she was being controlled by her abusive husband. Gilman intention is to revealed the lack of power women had over their own lives and what one woman did to free herself mentally and physical
His purpose is to reveal how a husband played a fatherly role to manipulate his wife, who was battling depression. She writes, “Dear John he loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit my two cousins Henry and Julia” (Gilman 849). Here, the author shows that men believed women were not capable of making their own decisions and therefore, they had to make the decisions for them. The author made a strong argument as she emphasized the delicate way the wife approaches her husband and how quickly she became subservient to his decision. The subservient manner in which the wife has come familiar with have put a toll on her mental state. Trying to navigate herself in her everyday life has made her delusional and out of touch with reality. She often see her home as a prison and she is surrounded by people who live underneath the wall paper. The author
He went a little further, because in his novel the woman was the provider. Yet, she was still seen as someone with the lesser value. Hurston point is that it did not matter whether a woman work or not she is still to a man, to be seen and not heard. Hurston writes, “look heah Sykes, you done too fur, Ah been married to you fur fifteen years, and Ah been takin’ in washin’ fur fifteen years. Sweat sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!”(Hurston 518). The pressure of the oppressor can be heard through her cries and the author’s tone magnified the urgency of which women need to be free. She wants to be value not only for what she is doing but also for who she is. While, both authors dealt with the mistreatment of women. The poor black woman was treated like trash in contrast to the upper class white woman who was treated like a delicate flower. Their intentions were not to say one abuse versus the other have lesser impact on these women. They were only making the arguments how the women were being value differently even though their husband’s intentions were the same. Hurston