I think that the two short stories we were assigned to read in ENG 258 both have a few good similarities. The stories are built around women who feel oppressed by their husbands and stuck. They are living in a place that also bothers them a lot but are taught not to complain about it and to submit to their husbands. However, both of the women try to communicate to their husbands about their homes which annoy them but it does nothing for the women. To get out of their trapped lives they do whatever it takes to get out. The wallpaper seems to be a symbolic structure in both stories as in the Yellow Wallpaper when it is hated mostly by the woman who is trapped in her "nursery" and the wall paper in Revolt of Mother where Sarah Penn's house should be replaced due to how old it is while her husband doesn't care to build a new home for his family.
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