The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The woman is insane! She is obsessed with the wallpaper. Towards the end everything she does is cetered around it. She has a child, and she only mentions him once! What kind of mother are you that you don't even talk about your child?! I understand that in those times they didn't know what post partum was or how its treated but that is definatly what she has.
I must admit though, I felt bad for her at first, because she was stuck in that room with the ugly wallpaper. But as the story went on the wallpaper became her life. It was all she thought of and all she spoke of. She sat in her room for hours just staring at it imagening the things behind it. Honestly, i think it was all because of the room. She was stuck there and John didn't want to move to the other room because "there was no space for two beds." They are obviously married and have a baby so they could have just slept on the same bed in the smaller room downstairs and his wife wouldn't have gone completely insane. He was out working and she was stuck in the house all day with nothing to do. Any one would go crazy from that. The more you don't do anything the more lazy you become and she was bored out of her mind and that is why she laid in her bed for hours at a time staring at the wallpaper imagening things. I think that she could have done at least something around the house to keep from going so insane.

The Story of an Hour - Kate Chopin

I felt kind of bad for Mrs. Mallard. She wasn't happy in her marriage to Mr. Mallard. When she got the news that he had died in an accident she was over filled with joy. No one knew it was joy, they all thought that she was grief stricken. She spent an hour in her room thinking how wonderful life will be without her husband and of all the things she is able to do now that she wasn't able to do before. When she came down stairs and saw her husband standing in the door way she was horrified. Her heart couldn't handle any more emotions. She died, in my opinion, from too many emotions at once. She died because she didn't want to be with him anymore. She wanted to be free from her husband, she didn't want to be married at all. When she is in her room she thinks of freedom, and how amazing it is to be free from the restraints of her marriage. When she saw her husband in the door way, she died. She still freed herself from him, only in a different way. It makes you think why Mrs. Mallard wasn't happy being married to Mr. Mallard and why she felt so restrained.