Gillman vs. Chopin
Women have conventionally been known as the less dominant sex. Through history women have fought for equal rights and independence. They have been stereotyped as being housewives, and bearers and nurturers of the children. Only lately with the push of the Equal Rights Amendment have women had a tough hold on the workplace alongside men. Many interesting characters in literature are conceived from the pressure women have faced with men. (Deneau, 210-14)
This nervousness is derived from men; culture, in general; and within a woman herself. Two motivating short stories, “The Yellow Wall-paper and “The Story of an Hour, “focus on a woman’s dilemma near the turn of the 19th century. We put forward the thesis that both have indefinite means, and can be translated in a million ways depending on the person that reads it because everyone will have a different interpretation for the meaning of each story This era is especially fascinating because it is a time in recent society when women were still treated as second class citizens. The two main characters in these stories show similarities, but they are also remarkably different in the ways they deal with their problems and life in general. (Deneau, 210-14)
“The Story of an Hour” was a very interesting narrative. It is extremely descriptive to a point where she threw me off when she says ‘There was something coming to her …; it was to restrained and elusive to name. But she felt it creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the noise, the scents, the color that filled the air.'(P 525) yet very brief and straight to the point. The finishing of the story wasn’t predictable to me but I could sense that the major character Mrs. Mallard was very near her death in other words that she was going to die at the closing stages of the story. The account point of view the author used is a Non participant point of view because the storyteller of the story was not any of the characters.(Golden, 37)
Mentioned which is the major basis why the narrator can portray all the characters very
well and see into the mind of one or more characters. The speaker is also omniscience as he can go in and out of the story. Since it is a Non participant story point of view it is written most of the time in the third person. This affects the story because if the narrator is not omniscience the writer wouldn’t be able to tell us how things were going on down stairs while the chief nature locked her self in her room or how reluctant they were to give her the bad new about her husband. (Golden, 37)
“The Yellow Wallpaper.” was also very exciting but it was very uninteresting and slow at the beginning because of the long complex sentences used by the writer like ‘If a physician of high standard, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression-a slight hysterical tendency-what is one to do?’
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