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Comparison of "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Darling" In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper", and Anton Chekhov's, "The Darling", we are introduced to main characters with lives surrounded by control. In Gilman's, "The Yellow Wallpaper", the main character, which remains nameless, is controlled by her husband, John. He tells her what she is and is not allowed to do, where she is to live, and that is she is not permitted to see her own child. In Chekhov's, "The Darling", the main character, Olenka, allows her own opinions and thoughts to be those of her loved ones. When John puts the narrator into the room, she writes in despite of him telling her that she should not. At the end of her first passage, the narrator tells us, "There comes John, and I must put this away - he hates to have me write a word". The narrator was told that writing and any other intellectual activity would exhaust her. The only thing that exhausts her about it is hiding it from them. The narrator tells us, "I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal - having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition". Conrad Shumaker suggests that John believes that if someone uses too much
Treating her like a child did not help her get well, it was her own strength at the end of the story that made her well again. In Chekhov's, "The Darling", Olenka's opinions changed with and as often as her husbands. " Olenka then marries a veterinary surgeon. In the story, the narrator was told not to have her child around because of stress. Mitchell gave her "solemn advice to 'live as domestic a life as far as possible,' to 'have but two hours intellectual life a day,' and 'never to touch pen, brush, or pencil again' as long" as she lived. "She repeated the veterinary surgeon's words, and was of the same opinion as he about everything. "I've asked you before not to talk about what you don't understand. She allows herself to not be able to think on her own. I wanted something downstairs that opened to the piazza and had roses all over the window, such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings! But John would not hear of it". Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous". When we veterinary surgeons are talking among ourselves, please don't put your word in. " When he would tell her this she would ask, "But, Volodichka, what am I to talk about. Her thoughts were always for someone beside herself.
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