Introduction
In three short stories (The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Olsen and The Revolt of Mother by Mary Wilkins), the burden of motherhood is revealed and discussed. This short paper will tackle various ways in which the burden of motherhood manifests itself in the life of mothers, and the specific resolutions each mother in the story has taken towards relieving themselves of either part or of all of the burden.
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In this short story, the narrator is confined to a home by her husband as the latter presumes she is simply having Continue reading...