Comparison between three women

Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,”
and Susan Glaspell, “A Jury of Her Peers.”
In our society men are considered the head of house hold. They are the providers for the family. Women are looked as house wives. A woman is to be submissive to her husband. Daughters also look up to their fathers with the same reflection. These three women with different lives experience the same treatment from their husband.
In the first story Mrs. Mallard husband is presumed dead. She hears the news of his death and immediately weeps but not for long. She went to her room by herself. Mrs. Mallard didn’t want anyone looking at her in case she showed any signs of relief. While in her room she realized, her knew life begins today. The narrator says that: “She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring of life”. (185)
Mrs. Mallard was a young woman w...