“The Story of the Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman are seen from a woman's point of view in the nineteenth century. They show the problems of how they are confined in the house. That they must remain housewives and let their husbands earn the family income. These stories are both written by American women and tell how their marriages came to be. Their husbands were very controlling and treated them more like children than wives. In the 19th century their behavior was considered normal for the time. In “The Story of the Hour” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both women explore their issues with wanting to be free from their husband's control. These women don't know how to behave when their husband is not present. They had to be controlled because they have no control over themselves. If their husbands didn't have control over them, they would be out of control. In both stories, when the husband is out of the picture, they are not in their right mind. They always had someone who cared for them as if they were children. When left alone, they talk to themselves and lose their minds. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the wife is mentally ill and cannot be left alone. Cannot function in daily routine. She says her husband doesn't treat her like a wife, but instead treats her like one of his patients. She is only treated like this because she acted like a patient and not like a wife. The only way to help her was to treat her like a patient so she could get better. In “The Story of the Hour,” the wife wanted her freedom so badly. She is also not in her right mind. She has a heart problem and had to be treated delicately. She also had a controlling husband…middle paper…nothing in the political field because of men. They earned a family income and the women stayed at home. “The Story of the Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gillman, both women explore their issues about wanting to be free from the control of their husbands. They feel they need to be free. Both women are not in their right mind and go crazy, when they have some sort of freedom from whatever has a trap on them. In both stories, when the women are left alone, they speak for themselves about what is happening around them. When their husbands are not present, they seem to lose control and need to be checked often. In the 19th century, sick women or women of any kind had no rights. So as soon as their husbands were gone or gone forever. They felt like they were in control, for once in their entire lives.