"The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Jury of Her Peers" are stories of oppression that women face in a male dominated society. Both stories represent how men try to control women regardless of women's will and how they influence women's lives. Although two stories use different point of views, they basically focus on very feminist perspective. The first person's point of view in "The Yellow Wallpaper" directly shows the narrator's feelings against her husband and other influential men in her life and the relationship between her and her husband. The narrator reveals that "Personally, I disagree with their (her husband's and brother's) ideas. Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good. But what is one to do" (Gilman 63)? Although she has a successful idea for her treatment, she is still moved by her husband's direction. Her husband seems to be the one who can change her thoughts because of his 'maleness' or the fact that he is her husband. In "A Jury of Her Peers," the third person point of view leads to an understanding of the main character through the other women's eyes. Many signs of main character's life of abuse and violence are clearly seen by the women and ignored by men.
             Both Ms. Wright and Jill are repressed by their husbands. However, their husband's attitudes are very contrary. Jill's husband is a loving and caring man, but he does not understand what Jill truly wants for her life and what she needs for her cure. He rather tries to cure her with his knowledge and his own theory. Moreover, his concern for Jill is excessive. He treats her like a little kid. His healing powers of being totally alone in the room with yellow paper and being away from writing seem to worsen her condition.
             "I don't want to leave now until I have found it out". The narrator with absolutely nothing else to do is reduced to staring endlessly at a pattern in a wal
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