Gender Roles in The Yellow Wallpaper and A Streetcar Named Desire

Many different depictions of sex roles exist in all whiles throughout the history of Ameri stinkpot culture and society. Some argon well received and some are not. When pitted against each other for all intents and purposes of opposition, the portrayal of the aspects and common traits of maleness and femininity are separated in a normal manner. However, when wiz gender expects the other to do its part and they are not quelled with the results and solicit more, things can shift from normal to extreme fairly quickly. This demand is more commonly attributed by the men within literary works. Examples of this can be seen in Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, where Stella is constantly creationness pushed around and being abused by her drunken husband Stanley, and besides in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper, where the female narrator is claimed unfit by her husband as she suffers from a sort of depression, and is generally looked atomic reactor on for other reasons.In The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman has carefully crafted her sentences and metaphors to instill a picture of lurid and creepy male oppression. The surface of the text contains clues nigh Gilmans perceptions of the treatment and roles of women, the narrator stumbling over words like phosphates, her being uncertain whether the correct term was phosphates or phosphites (Gilman 1684), which clearly shows that in her time women had been overlooked in education and because for a time, only men had that privilege, they were fitting to learn what they had to in order to earn jobs, which is illustrated in her husband and her chum salmon both being a physician of high standing (Gilman 1684). The causa Gilman has set up has the qualities and traits of the Victorian woman... ...e. While The Yellow Wallpaper in the first place touches on the treatment of women in Gilmans time and only majorly addresses how negative the reaction was for them while the men of her world were well-respec ted individuals, A Streetcar Named Desire makes a commentary on the gender roles of masculinity and femininity as a whole, including the two different portrayals of masculinity and how femininity was still generally looked down upon by American society in the late 1940s, unfortunately noting that not much had changed in the time between the stories passed.Works CitedGilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wallpaper. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 1684-1695. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 2337-2398.