Daisy Miller and The Yellow Wallpaper and Women Stereotypes
In the short stories Daisy Miller and the Yellow Wallpaper, there is one distinct and obvious theme; the degradation of the female gender. Society often places specific, stereotypical, and restrictive standards on the female sex. Although modern women have overcome unfair chauvinism and prejudice, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was much different. Women were forced to deal with a culture in which gender equality was much less understood. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James voiced their opinions concerning gender inequalities themselves through fictional literature. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the main character is a woman who is mentally ill and basically imprisoned until she regains her normal mental state. As in Henry James’s “Daisy Miller”, the main character is a young American girl traveling in Europe who denies the classic female standards and simply constructs her own rules. In “the Yellow Wallpaper”, the entire story progresses never revealing the main character’s name. This in itself possibly alludes to the fact that the women of her era simply lacked their own personal identity. They were known simply as “the wife of Mr. Smith rather than their own separate entity
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Approximate Word count = 1072
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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