The Story of an Hour and The Yellow Wallpaper Given what is known about the Victorian era, it is widely known that women were oppressed and held to a standard not seen in the modern-day world. The two short stories The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilmin, and The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin articulate themes of what women may have went through in the era. Both stories are written by women who use a limited platform to shear an allegory that shadowed the oppression of all women. In spite of the fact the stories have the similar themes, they are conveyed in two different perspectives to the reader. Both use components of imagery, Symbolism, and Point-of-view to chronicle the overall themes. Costa/Sample First Last ENC 1102 Professor Costa 03/03/2020 Comparison and Contrast Essay Women in the Victorian era were often oppressed by men, bending to their every will without giving it much thought themselves. This theme is expressed throughout the short stories The Story of an Hour, by Kate Chopin, and The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Both stories were written by women who each used their platforms to write an allegory that represented the oppression of all women. Although these two stories portray the same general theme, they vary on their writing techniques to get their messages across to the reader. Both stories use the elements of setting, imagery, and irony in different, and sometimes similar, ways to convey the overall theme. The majority of both stories take place in just a single room of a house, which eludes to the idea that the time spent in that room determines if you will be able to overcome the oppression or not. In “The Story of an Hour” when Mrs. Mallard was made aware of the sudden and tragic death of her husband she broke into tears, but “when the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.” (Chopin, 179) Mrs. Mallard does not reappear out of her room until the very end of the story when she has already gone through her trial and change, having happily overcome her difficulties. Similarly, in “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator is having symptoms of an unknown illness and is prescribed by her husband, who also happens to be a doctor, bed rest and isolation from people so that she could get the rest that she needed. This conflict in the story caused it to take place majorly in the narrator’s room due to them being confined and locked in there, solidified by the fact that the Costa/Sample “windows are barred” (Gilman, 217). The narrator refuses to leave her room until the very end of the story when she is absolutely forced to and has already gone through her trial and change, not being as fortunate as Mrs. Mallard in the other story because she had gone completely insane from her isolation in that room. Another major element utilized by both authors is the use of imagery in b.