Similarities Between The Yellow Wallpaper And Dead Men's Path

Chinua Achebe’s Dead Men’s Path is a story that revolves around a progressive, modern teacher who is sent by a ministry to be the headmaster for an unprogressive school in order to help improve the school and aide in its advancement. This story can be successfully and throughly compared and contrasted with The Yellow Wallpaper, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is a short first person narrative, told by an unnamed main character who is ill and staying in an English summer house with her husband while she recovers. While these stories are very different, they can be compared in multiple ways. Dead Men’s Path and The Yellow Wallpaper have several similarities. The first similarity is the direct correlation of the both authors’ personal lives with the setting and experiences that the main characters are presented with. The reader can clearly see a view into the authors’ lives through the main characters in both stories. Chinua Achebe’s father was a missionary schoolteacher and he lived during a time where his country was split in two during a civil war and the government was protested for years (Kennedy 500). The reader sees Achebe’s personal life

In Dead Men’s Path, Michael Obi is new to his role and is very driven in attempting to progress the school quickly. He sees planting shrubbery on a path through the school that villagers use as his first opportunity to help advance the school. He takes the path away to try and make appearances better for when the supervisor comes to visit the school. Things reversed on him when the morning after taking away the path, the shrubbery is destroyed and parts of the school have been torn down. The effect in the story was the exact opposite of Obi’s intentions when the supervisor comes and writes a “nasty” report because of the