The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This story signifies how humans can try to cope with anything. The wallpaper is a release, something to take her mind off all of her problems. The beginning of the story we are introduced to very rich people who are renting a beautiful estate for 3 months. The husband, John a doctor is a very caring man but all by the books. He doesn't want his wife who is suffering from a nervous depression to do anything but rest because of her condition. He doesn't see that not letting her face what is going on is actually hurting her. She wants to write and keep her condition off her mind or to just have a outlet to help her. She soon starts to write which makes her even more nervous because she doesn't want to get caught by anyone. She even feels it would be good for her to go away and see friends or have friends come over. She is also forbidden to think about her condition which then make her feel bad and probably gives her more anxiety. She tries to put concentration on other things like the house, which makes her paranoid and makes her think its haunted. She wants to sleep on other rooms but to her dismay her husband demands the room upstairs that she thinks was a children's room. She is very creative because of the sentiments she makes about the room "one of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin" she hates the color. she starts following the sunlight hitting the wallpaper, in the daytime then the night. She starts seeing a woman in the paper at night. Soon after she starts pulling all the paper off to suffice her needs in a psychotic downfall.

the story of an hour kate chopin

There are 5 stages of grief denial, anger, barganing, depression, and acceptance. Mrs Mallard went from what i think would be denial from not accepting the truth at first, speeding over ot barganing when she cryed the straight to acceptance. Even though she didnt love her husband i believe she shouldnt have had an eppiffany so soon about woman liberation so soon after hearing the news. Granted we know nothing about thier marriage. But i also wonder how her husband felt after her passing. This story was also written 100's of years age when woman didnt have the freedom we have today.