Comparison of The Yellow Wallpaper, I Stand Here Ironing and The Story of an Hour In these stories, Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing, Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, each has common situations about the main characters but the outcome of each is different. Different people handle struggles in different ways. In all the stories freedom was taken away in one way or …showed first 75 words of 1828 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1828 total…the outcome that each character would come to. These women were all ahead of their time in wanting to think their own thoughts and have their own opinions. They didn’t know how to be their own person and go against society in order to do that. In order to overcome their struggle with society they needed support, which they didn’t have from anyone, not even those that were closest to them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**