Women's Role Term Paper

¶ … Setting of Two Turn of the Century Feminist Tales The use of irony in both tales

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Women's Role in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Story of an Hour"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Katherine Anne Porter's short story "A Story of an Hour" both depict the constrained lives of middle-class women. The protagonist of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is driven mad when she is refused her books and the healthy aspects of her daily life as a rest cure, after the woman has given birth to her first child. The rest cure merely kindles the illness within her. In "A Story of an Hour," a woman with a bad heart is denied all of the aspects...

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The people around her say the young wife must have died of joy, but the reader, who is privy to her internal monologue, knows that the woman died from the shock of knowing that she had to return to the life she hoped to leave, the life of the supervised domestic sphere under her husband's thumb. The woman of the "Yellow Wallpaper," in a less obvious irony, may be depressed because she has just given birth, just…

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