“The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Revolt Mother” are both based on women who are completely undermined by their spouses. Each one took a stand against their husbands in two completely unique ways. Sarah in “The Revolt Mother”, opposes her husband by moving the family out of their home into the barn. The nameless woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, defies her husband toward the end of the story which leads to her going insane. Both women in each story move to a new home but for several different reasons. In spite of the fact the women appear frail throughout the story, they eventually show their strength. In Gilman’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, John the husband of the narrator in the story moves his wife to a new house shortly after her giving birth. Because John is a doctor he feels as though he knows more than his wife and is completely disregarding her feelings. He stripped her of her identity, and she couldn’t express herself. He put her in a room, the reeked of yellow. During the 19th century, women were to listen to their husband, and they also had the power to determine the health of their wives. She wasn’t permitted to write, on the grounds that he needed her to “rest”, but she secretly does so anyway. The room makes the woman so insane and in the wake of understanding …show more content…
Their feelings are being disregarded and the concern’s they have are completely ignored by both husbands in each story. The fact that the husbands continuously ignore their wives feelings it leads them to both resorting to drastic measures. The difference between the two is one is experiencing dejection while the other is simply suffering from being completely overlooked. Neither of the women’s needs are being met, in their own ways. Mother is a solid mother, who is willing to take risk for her children. While on the other hand the woman in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, isn’t emotionally stable enough to even tend to her