A Comparison of The Yellow Wallpaper and Daisy Miller -- comparison co

Society continually places specific and oftentimes restrictive standards on the female gender. While modern women have tame many unfair prejudices, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women were forced to deal with a less than understanding culture. Different people had various ways of voice their opinions concerning gender inequalities, including expressing themselves through literature. By writing a fictional story, authors analogous Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James were given the opportunity to let readers understand and split their birth ideas on such a serious topic. In Charlotte Perkins Gilmans short story The Yellow Wallpaper, the main character is a sign for all repressed women of her time. Throughout the entire story, her name is never mentioned, alluding to the particular that the women of her era simply lacked their own personal identity. Her husband treated her as a frail and incapable being. He laughed at her fears, and disregarded her concerns as frivolous worries. She recognized this as nothing beyond the normality, and accepts it because that is what her society deems standard. When commenting that on that point must be something queer about a house so large and beautiful, yet rented to them at such a reasonable price, she proceed John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in a wedding ceremony (1). John continually tells her that her illness is psychological, and encourages her to try and get more bright air, for her own efforts will be the best for a quicker recovery. However, on the one occasion she asks him for permission to visit her Cousin Henry and Julia, he denies her so, leaving her in tears and telling her she could not handle such a trip. ... ... the liberation of women everywhere. One can easily recognize, however, that times were not always so generous as now, and different women found their own ways of dealing with their individual situations. Charlotte Perkins Gilmans character creat ed a move image of the world in her mind, and eventually became mentally insane. While roughly cases were not so extreme, this character was imperative in creating a realisation of such a serious situation. James character did what most disobedient young American women would do. She broke free from cultural restrictions and lived her life as she pleased. A woman of passion, she chose to ignore the repressive attitudes of those around her. Women of today ar still fighting for equality, but have authors of the past and women like the characters in their stories to thank for the improvements they made.