Comparing Story Of An Hour And The Yellow Wallpaper

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In both, "Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, readers find two women that are housewives subjugated by their husbands. These two stories have many similarities; readers may assume that both stories are around the same time period, of which women did not have much say. With both of their controlling husbands the readers see two strong women, who so badly want freedom, lose themselves in the idea of wanting to live for themselves; and get want they wanted so badly in the end in a twisted way. The themes in both stories are similar, both having ironic endings, and both having a theme of freedom and confinement; both women wanting to be freed and at the end both are freed, but their idea of free …show more content…
In both stories the ending is very ironic. In the short story "The Story of an Hour" after receiving the news of her husband's death, Mrs. Mallard, at first, cries but then begins to feel excited that there would be "...no powerful bending" on her and that "she would live for herself" (Chopin 151). This is ironic because in receiving the news of her husband she feels "Free, free, free!" but when she saw her husband she dies, one may think it should be vice versa. Another ironic moment is when Mrs. Mallard reminded herself that "Spring days...and all sorts of days that would be her own...life might be long" (151) and shortly after reciting that to herself, she dies. The irony in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is how the women in the story was on a "rest cure" where she was stuck in a room to rest, and this remedy was supposed to cure her, but it did the complete opposite. The woman is stuck in this room for hours on end and constantly refers to the wallpaper as "revolting" and "repellent" (Gilman 365). Yet her husband the "high standing" physician feels that this was supposed to heal her, not knowing that this is what's going to make the woman worse in her condition; it is ironic that her "rest cure" did not cure her at
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