ause her husband feels that it would be better for her. The wife takes the mans advice in this situation, because that is what society has trained her to do. In her mind she is not her own person, she is only Johns wife.When John decides that the best treatment for his wife would be time away from their normal life he rents out an old mansion for the couple to live in during the summer. Even though the wife does not like the idea, she still follows the man, because society says he knows what is best for her. When the couple arrives at the mansion the time away from home seems to have the opposite effect on the wife that John intended. Her mental condition begins to worsen and her sense of despair continues to grow. The main reason for this continued depression is the bedroom in which the couple stays. The windows were barred like a prisons and the huge, immovable bed sits in the middle of the room. The walls were covered with yellow, patterned wallpaper that constantly caught the wifes attention. The yellow wallpaper on the wall would eventually become a representation of societys constraint on individual feminism.The yellow wallpaper begins to bother the wife so much that she eventually loses her mind, completely. At the end the husband finds the wife ripping off the wallpaper in the bedroom. This was the women tearing down the control her husband has over her. At the end of the story she is finally free.Joyce uses a totally different approach to societys constraints on life. In The Boarding House a women, Mrs. Mooney, is trying to find a suitable husband for her daughter, Polly. Mrs. Mooney runs a boarding house in England during the late nineteenth century, and to just let her daughter run off would be unacceptable in societys eyes. Nevertheless, Mrs. Mooney lets Polly have her way with the male residents of the boarding house. Mrs. Mooney watches silently as Polly begins to grow fond of Mr. Doran, a resident of the b...
