When reading about the women in Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" and John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" you realize that they share the same feelings but in different situations. The authors' use of characterization are differ between the way they express how the women feel. When you witness the women in the two stories you first think they are different, until you get into the climax of the stories you do not see how similar they are, such as, sharing the feeling of seclusion, being with husbands that don't connect with them well, and never solving their internal problem.
             The women in the stories seem to feel secluded in the sense of not being able to live their lives the way they want, instead they have to live a life of unhappiness. Eliza seems like she's more interested in what her husband is doing then what she is doing "she looked down toward the men by the tractor shed now and then" (Line 30). You can tell that Eliza would rather do something other than being in her garden all the time because she feel like she's stuck in a box that she cant escape.
             The women don't seem to connect well with their husbands and aren't able to communicate. In Mrs. Mallard's case you don't get a real explanation on how her relationship with her husband was but you can tell it wasn't a healthy one because she gets kind of happy when she finds out her husband died. With Eliza you can tell that her husband don't know her very well and doesn't take the time to get to know her.
             Both women, in the end, seem to don't solve their problems because they never face them. Mrs. Mallard thinks her problem is fixed when her husband dies and she thinks that she is "Free, free, free!" in paragraph 11. Then when she finds out that her husband never really died, she dies because she knows the freedom she thought she had is gone. With ...