In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, both authors provide evidence for readers to conceptualize the stories through the critical lens of feminism. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of an unnamed narrator who is taken to an ancestral home by her husband John to be treated for her nervous depression. Meanwhile, he develops a strong dislike for the yellow wallpaper in the bedroom the narrator is limited to. The narrator eventually becomes hopelessly mad in hopes of relieving the women trapped by the wallpaper. Similarly, The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a young woman trapped by social standards. Struggle between the relationship between wealth, love and respect. Lily never achieves her goal of marking her social elite status because she overdoses and dies at the end of the novel. The narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Lily of The House of Mirth both struggle throughout their womanhood. Edith Wharton and Charlotte Gilman use different points of view to highlight how eternal forces, such as women's entrapment, powerlessness, and subordination ultimately lead to their oppressive confinement in nineteenth-century society. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman immediately offers readers the most important elements at the beginning of the short fictional story. At the beginning of the story, the narrator states how her husband John has brought the family to live in the ancestral home for the summer. The narrator considers the house strange, but John is too practical to see things the way she does. He already can't believe that the narrator is actually sick. The narrator begins to lead readers to discover her constant changes... of the medium of paper... and the subordination of the world. “The Yellow Wallpaper” and The House of Mirth essentially promote Gilman and Wharton's call for change and illuminate a woman's struggle to gain equal chances in society through different points of view in these important works. Works Cited Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. "The yellow wallpaper." Cassill, R. V. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. 5th edition. New York: WW Norton & Company, 1995. Print.Restuccia, Frances L. “The Name of the Lily: The Feminism of Edith Wharton(S).” Contemporary Literature 28.2 (1987): 223. Literary Reference Center. Network. November 17, 2013. Sommerville-Thompson, Mina L. “'Reviewing' Charlotte Perkin Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper' beyond feminism.” CCTE Studies 76.(2011): 33-41. MLA international bibliography. Network. November 17, 2013. Wharton, Edith. The House of Joy. New York: Classic Seal, 1980.