The Yellow Wallpaper And Story Of An Hour Analysis
Malala Yousafzai said, “we cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”
Discrimination against women was not frowned upon back in the day and people still do it today.
In these stories it is noticeable to readers and shows what it was like in their shoes. The Yellow
Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour are similar, different, and show that women were looked down upon.
The two stories are comparable in how the narrators are portrayed. Both are women, both have an illness or something is “wrong” with them, and both women are married. The Yellow
Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour also deal with discrimination issues. In the first sentence of
The Story of an Hour, they call the woman, Mrs. Mallard. They don’t mention her first name,
Louise, …show more content…
The woman in The
Yellow Wallpaper was being taken advantage of because she was mentally ill. The narrator in
Story of an Hour was just thrilled that her husband was gone, so she wasn’t his property or his in general any longer. They were treated differently, for example, in The Yellow Wallpaper the wife was treated like a child by her husband and he was very dominant. In the Story of an …show more content…
He doesn’t mean any harm to her and respects her.
These stories are both written in the late 1800’s and back then women were more of property and housewives. They didn’t have their own rights. Mrs. Mallard was excited when she found out her husband wouldn’t be back. She could at last be independent! She wouldn’t have to be Mrs. Mallard anymore. The woman in the Yellow Wallpaper never got to make any of her own decisions. Her husband chose what he thought was “right” for her. She obeyed him, as that was what she had to do. Both women in the stories didn’t have a job of their own. They were both housewives and didn’t work. Their husband worked. The wives weren’t allowed to have opinions or do what they wanted in these two stories. The men in their lives could control them.
The Yellow Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour were alike, yet different, and both displayed inequality between men and women. They uncovered what it was like to be living as a woman over 100 years ago. The stories showed us how little women had a say. They have taught us that we shouldn’t let men stop women from being independent. Women are capable of being self-sufficient. Women can do
Discrimination against women was not frowned upon back in the day and people still do it today.
In these stories it is noticeable to readers and shows what it was like in their shoes. The Yellow
Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour are similar, different, and show that women were looked down upon.
The two stories are comparable in how the narrators are portrayed. Both are women, both have an illness or something is “wrong” with them, and both women are married. The Yellow
Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour also deal with discrimination issues. In the first sentence of
The Story of an Hour, they call the woman, Mrs. Mallard. They don’t mention her first name,
Louise, …show more content…
The woman in The
Yellow Wallpaper was being taken advantage of because she was mentally ill. The narrator in
Story of an Hour was just thrilled that her husband was gone, so she wasn’t his property or his in general any longer. They were treated differently, for example, in The Yellow Wallpaper the wife was treated like a child by her husband and he was very dominant. In the Story of an …show more content…
He doesn’t mean any harm to her and respects her.
These stories are both written in the late 1800’s and back then women were more of property and housewives. They didn’t have their own rights. Mrs. Mallard was excited when she found out her husband wouldn’t be back. She could at last be independent! She wouldn’t have to be Mrs. Mallard anymore. The woman in the Yellow Wallpaper never got to make any of her own decisions. Her husband chose what he thought was “right” for her. She obeyed him, as that was what she had to do. Both women in the stories didn’t have a job of their own. They were both housewives and didn’t work. Their husband worked. The wives weren’t allowed to have opinions or do what they wanted in these two stories. The men in their lives could control them.
The Yellow Wallpaper and the Story of an Hour were alike, yet different, and both displayed inequality between men and women. They uncovered what it was like to be living as a woman over 100 years ago. The stories showed us how little women had a say. They have taught us that we shouldn’t let men stop women from being independent. Women are capable of being self-sufficient. Women can do