Since the early 19th Century, Our views on feminist analysis have advanced and have adapted to every age of literature and have entitled women to liberal rights. It is essential for every feminist analysis to identify the various ways in which women rights are disparate from those of men. For a woman to feel like she is liberal, she must make courageous actions and choices so that she doesn’t feel like men are superior to her. Authors such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a novelist from the 19th century and writer of the short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Kate Chopin, a novelist from the 19th century and writer of the short story The Story of an Hour and of the novel The Awakening, and Donald Hall, writer of an analysis entitled Feminist Analysis…show more content… For instance, when John, the narrator’s husband, is arriving home, the narrator tries to conceal the fact that she has been writing, she states ‘’There comes John, and I must put this away, he hates to have me write a word’’ (769). What this quote manifests is that Edna is doing things that her husband wouldn’t be happy about, which is writing or working, because she finds it to be a source of buoyancy. The narrator feels liberated and in control of herself as she writes without having to inform her husband about it. Moreover, Gilman’s motive for writing this quote is so that she can show that women are kept from doing what they are passionate about because their husband plays the role of an obstacle, someone who keeps their wife from having or maintaining their liberal…show more content… For instance, when Mrs. Mallard receives the news that her husband has passed, the narrator then states ‘’She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body’’ (130). Essentially, what Chopin wants to communicate to the audience is that a woman of the 19th century is a happier and more free woman once her husband has past. In the story, Mrs. Mallard is expected to take the death of her husband in a negative way, however, she ends up feeling liberated instead of sad or upset. Moreover, Mrs. Millard feeling liberated manifests that her husband has deprived her of certain things, in the result, Mrs. Mallard feels joyous rather than
