The Yellow Wallpaper -- Literary Analysis, Gilman, Crane, Perkins

When looking at two nineteenth century flora of change for two females in an American society, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Stephen put out come to mind. A feminist socialist and a realist novelist capture moments that make their readers rethink life and the piece surrounding. Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper was first published in 1892, about a white middle-class woman who was confined to an upstairs room by her husband and doctor, the rooms wallpaper imprisons her and as well as liberates herself when she tears the wallpaper off at the end of the story. On the other hand, Cranes 1893 Maggie A Girl of the Streets is the realist account of a New York girl and her trials of growing up with an alcoholic mother and slum life world. The imagery in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper and Stephen Cranes Maggie A Girl of the Streets uses color in unconventional ways by embedding color in their narratives to be the opposite of their common meanings, allowing these colors to repres ent unique associations to support their thematic concerns of emotional, mental and societal challenges throughout their stories offering their readers the opportunity to question the conventionality of both(prenominal) gender and social systems.The use of color in Stephan Cranes Maggie A Girl of the Streets is crucial when looking at the setting of the story the reiterate use of red is significant when describing Maggies mother Mary and the importance of color in describing the social system through the story. It is seen prominently when Maggie and Pete go to the theater, split of the play paralleled the lives of the common people The latter spent most of his time out at soak in pale-green snow storms, busy with a nickel-plated revolver, re... ...nd aid of the domesticity that she is imprisoned in. These ideas only reiterate the gilded cage idea of the nineteenth century and the association of all that is bad in a society delineated by the trappings of domestic life.The color symbolism in both Cranes Maggie A Girl of the Streets and Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper portion out the associations of gender, society and the realism of a womans sphere within a changing and evolving commercial society. As the societal changes of the nineteenth century run closer to the industrialism, naturalism, and the rise of a new class taboos such as mental illness and poverty it moves further from an ideal domestic Victorian society. The industrial enterprise of manufacturing and the production of goods and thoughts are most representative through the writings of Crane and Gilman as well as other nineteenth century writers.