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This is a 4 page paper discussing the “desire to be free” as found in Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Writers Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote about the oppression of women and the helplessness many women felt within marriage during the late 19th century. Both women wrote of the personal and psychological experiences of the women of the day in which through everyday life, women were mainly identified only as the wives of their husbands and had to defer to their husbands for most if not all decisions. The short stories, Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” are two examples of the different approaches taken to exemplify women’s desire to be free from the confines of their lives within marriage and the dominance of men in making the decisions. While Chopin’s story tells of one woman’s shift into elation upon the realization that she will be free to make her own decisions because of her husband’s death, Gilman’s work delves deeper into the psychological struggle of a woman confined by her husband for “rest” in a room that only throws her deeper into madness and eventually leads to her finding her own way to release herself.
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the helplessness many women felt within marriage during the late 19th century. Both women wrote of the personal and psychological experiences of the women of the day in which through
everyday life, women were mainly identified only as the wives of their husbands and had to defer to their husbands for most if not all decisions. The short stories, Chopins
"The Story of an Hour" and Gilmans "The Yellow Wallpaper" are two examples of the different approaches taken to exemplify womens desire to be free from the confines of their
lives within marriage and the dominance of men in making the decisions. While Chopins story tells of one womans shift into elation upon the realization that she will be free
to make her own decisions because of her husbands death, Gilmans work delves deeper into the psychological struggle of a woman confined by her husband for "rest" in a room
that only throws her deeper into madness and eventually leads to her finding her own way to release herself. Kate Chopin became well
known not within her own day when women remained largely unrecognized but in the 1950s when her novel "The Awakening" sparked interest in her realistic perception of the way life
was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their desire to have the same amount of freedom
as the men around them. Chopins short story "The Story of an Hour" (1894) is no exception to this desire and it is written in a way in which the
main woman in the story is referred to as "Mrs. Mallard" and "she" throughout the text when she is identified mainly as the wife of a railway man, recently deceased.
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