The Yellow Wallpaper and The Awakening were two works written in the era of expression. The entire country was going through an era of reconstruction; politically, socially, culturally and economically. The Yellow Wallpaper and The Awakening are feminist works targeting the psychological, social and cultural injustices of the time. According to Mizruchi, “cosmopolitanism gave rise to unease: depression and dissection were widespread in a society whose pace and variety seemed implacable. Yet the same circumstances also sparked hope. For it was widely recognized that the emerging heterogeneity of a newly globalized America would be a source of lasting vitality. » (Mizruchi, 2008) The wives depicted in these works have overcome the attitudes of their husbands during this patriarchal culture. “rest cure” for neurasthenia (minor depression). Today, neurasthenia would be called postpartum depression. Rest and quiet were prescribed as an antidote eagerly used by the medical establishment in the United States. The medical establishment was dominated by men, like husband John in The Yellow Wallpaper. The Yellow Wallpaper Wife defeated her husband John by accepting madness rather than repression, refusing a life of "unhappy, silent acceptance." John, her husband, forbids her to do anything other than marital things. He didn't like her writing. The writing symbolized her using her mind. Artistic abilities, including writing, were insignificant for him. In rebellion, in the yellow-wallpapered "cell", she used her mind to create a dark, gothic world, full of her wild fantasies and artistic revolt (including thoughts of burning down the house), and s 'escaping in repressed rage. The eventual repressed rage...... middle of paper ...... the "sea" to its death of privacy, freedom and comfort. The story of Kate Chopin, The Awakening and the story of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper draw out the power of two truths: first, each work presents itself as a political cry against injustice and with socio/political genesis of the modern feminist movement. Second, each text is the guardian of a new literary history. Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman seem to initiate a new phase in textual history where literary conventions are revised to serve an ideology representative of the "new" feminine presence. Two conventions in particular seem of central importance: “marriage” and “property”. Works Cited Mizruchi S. Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865-1915 [e-book]. University of North Carolina Press; 2008. Available from: eBook Collection, Ipswich, MA. Accessed in August 30, 2011.