Comparison and Contrast Essay “The Yellow Wallpaper” vs. “The Story of an Hour” “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and “The Story of an Hour”, by Kate Chopin, are alike in that both of the women in the stories were controlled by their husbands which caused them to feel an intense desire for freedom. Both stories were also written from a feminist point of view. However, the women in the stories had different life changes and different responses to their own freedom as a result of that change. In both stories the women’s husbands had direct control over thei