Comparison of The Yellow Wallpaper, I Stand Here Ironing and The Story of an Hour
             In these stories, Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing, Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, each has common situations about the main characters but the outcome of each is different. Different people handle struggles in different ways. In all the stories freedom was taken away in one way or another. All were struggling with inner conflicts about conforming to other people's wants or needs. The characters in all stories had to deal with abandonment in some form. All dealt with emotional and mental abuse. All women found their own way of escaping from conforming to what other people thought they should do. All three stories deal with the oppression of women. The women in these three stories are all confined in one way or another, either by society or by their own minds. The oppression of women is described several times in the three stories. Women didn't have the right to voice their own opinions. They were not allowed to have a!
             ny of their own thoughts or ideas. All three stories had someone in their life that was actually in control of them.
             In Olsen's, the missing father and society are the dominant figures; for the reasons she had to make the decisions she did and in Gilman's and Chopin's the husbands were in control of the woman. In Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing, the constraints of oppression were alive in her thoughts. Olsen's facade was being a housewife, she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story:
             "Let her be. So, all that is her will not bloom but in how many it does? There is still enough left to live by. And help her know that is more than this dress on the ironing board helpless before the iron" (Olsen 229).
             In Gilman's, several statement...