Convention and Resistance: The Story Behind The Yellow Wallpaper In "The Yellow Wallpaper", a story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the conflict centers around the narrator's inability to maintain her sanity in a society that does not recognize her as an individual, but as a woman. The convent...

Nora Helmer and Women in American Literature Women were valued very little by nineteenth century society. The treatment of these women was also extremely negative; they were expected to stay home and fulfill domestic duties. Literature of this time embodies and mirrors social issues of women in s...