Similarities Between The Yellow Wallpaper And The Story Of An Hour

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The Power of the Mind
The human mind continues to impress all, even scientists and doctors who study and examine brains as a profession. Scientists and high school students alike wonder about the power of the brain. The two stories, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” show many similarities and differences that make us ponder of the power the brain possesses. Having many similarities and differences, these two stories exhibit women in the 19th century with similar scenarios, but the outcomes differ. The two stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an Hour,” show multiple similarities in expression of the imagery, and the concepts of connections between body and mind, but differ in showing the effect of immediate shock and …show more content…
The imagery expressed in both stories are creative, imaginative and understandable. The imagery in “The Story of an Hour” exhibits images of freedom and happiness despite the current situation the story presents, while the imagery in “The Yellow Wallpaper” shows more depressing, imprisoning images. Both stories tell of twenty to thirty year old women who can not be free like their husbands, so they become trapped in their social prisons. In “The Story of an Hour,” the narrator, Louise, once told of her husband’s death, sits in her arm chair and looks out the window and although it’s raining and overcast, Louise only sees the bright side. She calls the rain a “delicious breath”(p 5) and overlooks the gray clouds to view “patches of blue sky”(p 6). This obvious statement shows that Louise feels happy and free when her husband died in a train wreck. The similarities of imagery between “The Story of an Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper” expressed in both stories give examples of life in the 19th century for wealthy women and the mental workings of the narrators. The imagery in “The Yellow Wallpaper” tends to be less cheerful and light. The story does not
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