CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

Compare & Contrast: The Story of an Hour & The Yellow Wallpaper

“The Story of an Hour” Similarities “The Yellow Wallpaper”

● Main character has heart problems

● Everyone knew that she had these heart problems and treated her gently

● Someone died ● There was irony

within the story because the woman was excited about her new freedom and she died from the excitement.

● She was ill and was told her husband died. She was okay that he was dead. When she found out he was alive and died of too many emotions.

● Both of the women are “trapped.”

● Both women were in a society that oppressed them.

● They were both in their feelings.

● Women have marriage issues.

● Ironic ● Both husbands had

their own roles with their wives.

● Both lived in an oppressed society so they both most likely wanted their husband to die.

● The Women was locked up and they wouldn't let her out.

● Main character Has anxiety and depression.

● No one thought that any of these problems were valid/actually existed

● The woman became crazy/depressed by the husband thinking he was helping by isolating her in a house with bars.

● The woman was ill. Husband takes her to a secluded place and keeps a very close eye on her. Her insanity takes over and her husband faints from shock.