Comparison

Comparison Although it may not seem obvious to all readers, the stories of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Wallpaper” share the same storyline. During certain literary periods, authors often treat similar topics. First, both stories share the same era: the beginning of the twentieth century. Gilman published in 1892 while Frost published in 1923. Moreover, both stories begin with the narrator describing the house, its location and the nature around it. Jane, in Gilman’s story spends three quiet months locked up in a yellow room. Similarly, Frost’s narrator spends a quiet night in dark woods with white snow. Both characters also feel isolated from the outside world, impressed by their surroundings and bothered by someone close to them. Furthermore, women’s condition seems like an stories, both, gilman’s, frost’s, story, jane, woods, spends, share, seems, same, room, quiet, published, obvious, narrator, harness, authors, yellow, world, women’s, woman, white, while, ways, wallpaper, twentieth, treat, topics, together, théberge, three, think, tells, teachers, surroundings