The Yellow Wallpaper

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Story of an Hour" both explore themes of female oppression, but they differ in their protagonists' responses. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator descends into...

Both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and A Doll's House explore women's roles and their treatment by controlling husbands. In both, the husbands infantilize their wives with pet names. Nora, from A Doll's...

The narrators in "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" share similarities, such as being mentally ill and unaware of their illness's extent. Both stories focus on psychological states,...

"The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Trifles" both explore themes of repression, the treatment of women, and alienation. The protagonists, an unnamed narrator and Mrs. Wright, suffer from oppressive...

Both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Cask of Amontillado" feature unreliable narrators, creating ambiguity about the truth of their accounts. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's descent into...

Katherine Mansfield’s "Bliss" and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s "The Yellow Wallpaper" both deal primarily with gender identity. Similarities include female, upper-middle class protagonists who...

"Herland" and "The Yellow Wallpaper" depict women's lives in starkly contrasting ways. In "Herland," women live in a utopian society without men, emphasizing mutual cooperation and gender equality,...

Both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Rocking-Horse Winner" explore conflicts within families that lead to tragic outcomes. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator clashes with her husband, John, over...

In "A Rose for Emily," Emily Grierson's insanity is manifested through her delusional clinging to her father's memory and ultimately her macabre relationship with Homer Barron's corpse. In "The...

Both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Cathedral" explore themes of isolation and human perception. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator's isolation exacerbates her mental illness, altering her...

From a feminist and formalist perspective, both "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Bliss" explore themes of feminine subjectivity and psychological imprisonment. Feminist analysis highlights the patriarchal...

Both argue against oppression. Gilman argues against the oppression of women in her short story, where a woman goes crazy due to isolation and overwork enforced upon her by a doctor. Du Bois argues...