Comparing The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin and
The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
by Barry Wright
Essay: Comparing The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman
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The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and "The Story of an Hour", by Kate Chopin are two very
similar stories. Both women were controlled by their husbands who caused them to feel an intense desire for
freedom. However, the women in the stories had different life experiences and different reactions to their own
freedom as a result of their different personalities.
Mrs. Mallard in "The Story of an Hour" had to deal with a sort of burden. Her husband had control over her "body
and soul". She felt that he lived her life for her and did "not believe that anyone had the right to impose a private
will on a fellow creature" (Chopin). This control caused her to long for freedom from her husband's harsh behavior.
Mrs. Mallard didn't know she was oppressed until she believed she was free. Mrs. Mallard?s love for her freedom is
so strong that when she is given the news of her husband?s death, she relieved that ?there would be no one to
live for her during those coming years, she would live for herself? (Chopin). She yearns to live her own life without
someone being there to dictate her every thought and action. She wants to live her own life and make her own
decisions without being under the constant scrutiny of her husband.
But, in ?The Story of an Hour? Mrs. Mallard?s change was that her husband died, and her reaction went from grief
to joy and then back to grief again. When she was initially told of her husband?s death, ?she wept at once, with
sudden, wild abandonment? (Chopin). But, her grief was short lived. She soon was overcome with the joy that her
husband would no longer control her. ?Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and
summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her o...
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