When we compare we compare the two stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" with "The Story of an Hour". If we look first at the similarities they have, they are both about women controlled by their husbands and wanting freedom. But both women had different reasons for their freedom. It seems both husbands had control over their lives and both women had an illness they believe the husbands knew their wives were so unhappy. So if we look at the lives of women in the 19th century, they have the stereotypical tendency of being a stay-at-home wife, staying at home taking care of the children, taking care of the house and helping the house. husband at his job. Being responsible for the house makes women have a lot of responsibilities to take care of, but despite this women are often looked down upon and men who often think that a woman's word is not important. The two stories are about two women who have successful husbands and women who feel suffocated by their inability to live their own lives or make their own decisions. The two stories feature similar plots about two wives who have come to feel imprisoned in their own marriages. In the yellow wallpaper, she is practically imprisoned in her bedroom and doesn't even have a say in the room's location or decor. She is forbidden to work and write, as she says: “I wrote for a while in spite of them; but it exhausts me quite a bit to have to be so astute about it, otherwise encounter heavy opposition” (Gilman8). She is forced to spend almost every moment in her room. She is not even allowed to have visitors, as he does not allow her any kind of mental or physical stimulation. She has even been banned from leaving the house, presumably to allow her to rest and catch up on her h... halves of paper... excited about what she will finally be able to do with her life. In reality she has understood that she will finally be able to live for herself, but when she discovers that he is not dead, her pain returns as well as the pain that kills her. How sad it can be for these women to feel they have no choice outside of their marriage. In conclusion, both stories were fantastic in allowing us readers to see the way women were repressed in their society in 1900. We don't hate men; we just wish women didn't have to be so submissive. Freedom is achieved in very unconventional ways in both of these stories, but the kind of freedom these storytellers achieve is not available to most women of this era. Works Cited Kennedy, XJ and Dana Gioia. "The yellow background." Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. 2011. Print.