In both stories, husbands fulfilled their expected roles as breadwinners. Unlike “The Story of an Hour,” there is a deeper and more complicated relationship in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” John dictated what his wife did, but he did it out of pure love, and as a result there was a greater sense of mutual love and empathy. John has based all his precautions and decisions on his wife's recovery, and the narrator submits to John's will because she does not want to “make him uncomfortable” and disturb him. This mutual concern for the other does not emerge in “Storia di un