Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And Woman Hollering Creek

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“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros, and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid are riveting short stories that focus on the roles of females in a world dominated by unmitigated male dominance. The Yellow Wallpaper is about a subservient woman who is sick and prescribed the rest cure by the will of her husband. She disregards her own physical and emotional wellness, allowing her husband full control of her actions and health until she eventually loses her sanity. Woman Hollering Creek focuses on a woman named Cleófilas who marries a man that later begins to inflict physical and mental harm upon her. However, She does not leave her relationship because she is stricken with love for him. Moreover,

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