Compare And Contrast The Story Of An Hour And The Yellow Wall-Paper

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Deanna Solis
Dr. Kathryn Klein
ENGL 2328
18 September 2015
Story of Two
If we go back in time we can analyze that woman have always been held below men. In the past the only essentials people had to keep record were a pen and a paper so authors used these tools to keep record of events going on the era. In the story, “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman two women are subordinated by their own husbands showing how gender play a role in marriages.
The character from “The Story of an Hour”, Mrs. Mallard, find out her husband has been involved in an accident and although the news saddens her she is also quite optimistic of what is yet to come. In Comparison, the character from “The Yellow Wall-paper”,

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