In the short stories Daisy Miller and the Yellow Wallpaper, there is one distinct and obvious theme; the degradation of the female gender. Society often places specific, stereotypical, and restrictive standards on the female sex. Although modern women have overcome unfair chauvinism and prejudice, late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was much different. Women were forced to deal with a culture in which gender equality was much less understood. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James voiced …
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