Similarities Between "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Revolt of Mother"

There are many parallels between "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Revolt of Mother". One of the most important similarities is the role of women. Both women are not being heard and are stuck in their homemaking roles of late 19th century society. Both women are ordered to act, speak, and live a certain way but end up rebelling. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the narrator writes letters even though her husband does not approve. She also has secret thoughts that are different than her husbands that she would never voice out loud. She does not agree with the way she is being treated as a patient and believes she is sick with a different illness than her husband believes her to be sick with. This is a quiet, unspoken rebellion that grows and finally comes to a climax when she claws at the wallpaper and creeps over her husband when he faints at the sight of her. In "The Revolt of Mother", the main character "Mother" has always done what was expected of her as a wife and never complained about her work. However, she is fed up when after 40 years the house that was promised to her during her engagement still isn't built. So she takes matters into her own hands and rebels against her husband and society's rules by making the new barn her new house.
Another similarity is that both women are trapped in their roles and trapped in the house. Sarah or "mother" works all day in the kitchen and sews clothes for the family. The narrator in the "Yellow Wallpaper" is trapped up in an abandoned, creepy nursery up in the attic. In the end, both women fight back to take back what they should have had all along. Sarah gets the house she was promised forty years ago and the woman from "The Yellow Wallpaper" gets control of her situation and fights back against her husband's rules and limitations.