aunted house" despite of the fact that she suffers from a mental illness. She is stuck in a vacation home that is "well back from the road, quite three miles from the village" (Gilman 182). The house makes her so strange that she cries all day, but not at night for her husband is there: "[she cries] at nothing, and [cries] most of the time" (Gilman186). She does not like her room a bit at first because of "the yellow wallpaper." She wants to get out and wishes "John would take [her] away from [that room]" (187). She is trapped in that room for three months until she gets herself out.
             The writers in those days have the same opinion of a relationship between husband and wife. Many women were living in a world that was dominated by their husbands in the early days. It was very common for men to control their wives during that era. Most women were not able to rebel against their husbands. The women in both stories are protagonists who have a strange relation with their husbands. While the main character of Gilman suffers from a nervous breakdown, a character of Steinbeck is a very strong and powerful woman. Gilman's character gets free at last whereas Steinbeck's character is frustrated with her ignorant husband. The sick woman tries to rebel against her husband by "writing," the thing that she is forbidden to do. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman mentions in a way that the sick woman is always confined by her spectator- husband. She does not have a good relationship with her husband although her husband is "very careful and loving" (Gilman 183). Gilman, moreover, addresses that John prevents her from writing which she loves so much. She feels so discouraged that
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