Society’s expectations of women drove the thoughts and actions of the main characters in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte perkins Gilman and “The Kiss” by Kate Chopin. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character is struggling with depression, so her doctor husband, John, takes her to a house where she can “get better”. However, in this house the narrator feels trapped; Her husband regulates everything she does from what she eats to where she lives: the nursery. The narrator is treated like a child, with no opportunity to speak for herself or express how she feels. John tells the narrator that she is getting better, because she is expected to get better, but he doesn’t give her the chance to express how she feels and the fact that she is
