In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper and in Virginia Woolf's, A Room of Ones Own, we get a particular look into women's roles in a patriarchal society. ... In Gilman's, The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrators husband and other authority figures portray the main character as submissive and constantly belittle her opinions. ... Woolf begins her piece by stating a rather ambiguous narrator not really defining a particular name but rather emphasizing a variety of women. ...

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