The two novels “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an Hour” contain many similarities between the two female characters. Both plots can be seen to have a wife whose husband's affection for their medical situation turns her for the worse rather than the better. Indications of mental disorder are very evident in every story, starting from the innocence and up to the death of the wife. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” we begin with a woman admiring her home that her husband has taken care of as a summer home. She suffers from nervous depression and complains that her husband, also a doctor, belittles her symptoms and her thoughts in general. He says his rationalistic behavior is a compliment to his imaginative personality. He starts a secret diary to better deal with these feelings and worries he has. He talks about the room and how he hates the yellow wallpaper because it's strange, patternless, and "revolting." He complains about John's condescending ways but goes back to the wallpaper. John believes she is fixated on it and refuses to remove it to satisfy her neurotic fears. She thinks the bedroom was once a nursery and starts seeing strange patterns in the main wallpaper pattern. She stops writing because she is interrupted by Jennie, John's sister, who has been their housekeeper and nurse. Later John threatens to send her to a real doctor whose treatments involve nervous breakdowns. She becomes obsessed with the wallpaper and identifies the drawing that appears to be a woman "bend and crawl" behind the bars of a cage. When she tries to leave the house, John talks about her condition which stops her. The wallpaper begins to dominate his imagination, hiding his interest so that no one finds himself...... middle of the paper... as a result of one of two impulses; sexual or aggressive. “Aggression was usually generated by death and through this it became more likely that a person would choose to act on it” (rpi.edu). We see the aggressive energy of living without her husband grow in Louise as she deals with her husband's death. You might wonder why Gilman's character is alive and Louise is dead. The fact that Gilman's character went mad and went mad may seem like she is physically alive, but both characters are ultimately mentally dead. “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story of an Hour” are great examples of how overprotection can cause more pain than it did. Well. Although both stories point to this principle at different ends of the spectrum, similarities can be seen in both stories to suggest that one's sanity can be heavily altered through the behavior of another..