Essay Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And The Hills Like White Elephants

The main similarities, between these stories, are that they both have a narration of the story that is hard to fallow. The Yellow Wallpaper has a narrator that is a woman of sensitive temperament, and she is also a writer. The story is told in strict first-person narration, focusing exclusively on her own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Everything that we learn or see in the story is though her consciousness, and since the narrator goes insane over the course of the story, her perception of reality is often completely at odds with that of the other characters. She is a young upper-middle-class woman who is suffering from what depression and whose illness gives her insight into her situation in society and in marriage, although even her, time in the hospital dose no goof for her and only robs her of her sanity. What we get most is the narrator is in a state of anxiety for much of the story, with flashes of sarcasm, anger, and desperation. So it is kind of hard to fallow. What’s happening until the end when the narrator, now completely identified with the woman

As well as the women are forced to listen and respect their husbands. On the other hand, “The Hills Like White Elephants“, there seems to be for the most part an even distribution of power and respect in terms of what each person has to say about matters. Hills Like White Elephants is also not your typical short story, the reader feels like they get thrown in to a random setting with a man and a women having an intense conversation. The two main characters: The American/man and the girl, which later we hear the American calls the girl “Jig”. For most of the story we have to infer what the two characters are talking about, we get our first hint when the man says, “It’s really an awfully simple operation. As the story progresses he continues to suggest this to the girl throughout the