The Yellow Wallpaper and Chrysanthemums

When I read the story The discolor Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I approximation it as a chilling tale about a woman in the rational disorder, some psychological difficulty related to the mind. It was really resembling a horrible take in which made my hair jut out on end. However, after several(prenominal) prison terms of reading, I strand out some early(a) aspects from the story about the society, the cosmos in the twentieth century. Especially, the affair exercises me think about a lot is the wo manpowers role in society at that time.\nThe inaugural thing I could identify out is that the woman in this story is the victim of kindly expression. She allows herself to be inferior to men, curiously her husband, John. Being a physician, he has special orders for her: To stay in bed, suppress her imagination, and most importantly to discontinue her writing. Though she feels get around when she writes, and feels it may be beneficial, she does non say anything. Personally I disagree with their ideas, she writes. Personally, I think that congenial usage, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do?. Her saying what is one to do?, gives me the feeling that she has no presumption in herself. She depends on her husband, accepts his orders and lets him make the finiss for her. It reflects that women remained the second-class citizens at that time with its distinction between the interior(prenominal)functions of the female and the active work of the male. Thats reason why the men always had effect of keeping women in a adolescent state of ignorance and prevented women from their dreams and their full development. I think that this social convention is so harsh that it caused a lot of tragedies for women at that time.\nIn the story of Chrysanthemums, we had caught Elisa Allen - who has essay to conceal herself by the mannish shelter. The reason that makes Elisa acts the inter for her face maybe love from the po werless to make decision for her own destiny. Elisa is a vi...