Human beings are social creatures. We evolved from mammals that like to interact with each other and with our environment. Even today you can see the signs that we are very social creatures. Sites like Facebook and Twitter make it easier than ever to stay in touch with people from our past and meet new people. The recent Maker movement, in which people harness the power of the Internet to share ideas and suggestions on projects, also shows that we like to interact and change our environment. Thanks to the Internet, it is easier than ever to stay connected and interact with our environment. But at the time Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers" were written, the Internet had not yet been conceived. As a result, when isolated from the rest of the world, many people went crazy from the lack of interaction, especially women. Women are often much more social than men, as the parents of any teenage daughter with a cell phone can tell you. For a woman, being cut off from meaningful social interactions, even if she doesn't have an addiction to texting or Facebook, can lead to madness, as shown in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell.In "The Yellow Wallpaper" the wife is diagnosed with a nervous disorder by her husband and is ordered to rest for an entire summer to recover, as was common at the time the story was written. She is put in a room with only her husband to keep her company, some furniture and this horrible yellow wallpaper. She is forbidden to write and so she secretly hides it. In the past, this may have seemed like the best advice for treating a woman's nervous disorder... middle of paper... in the world. It is because this interaction has become so common and so easy that people forget how important it is in their lives. If this meaningful interaction did not exist in people's lives, they would quickly go crazy. Then go talk to a family member or friend. Enjoy the conversation. Because without this interaction, people, as demonstrated by Minnie Foster and her wife from "The Yellow Wallpaper", would quickly descend into madness. Works CitedCharters, Ann and Samuel Charters. "A jury of his peers." Literature and its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 5th ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010. 185-201. Print.Charters, Ann and Samuel Charters. "The yellow background." Literature and its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 5th ed. Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010. 172-84. Press.