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Comparative Analysis of the Women - Characters in the Stories "Lullaby" by Leslie Marmon Silko and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Leslie Marmon Silko and Charlotte Perkins Gilman do not have the same national and cultural background, they lived in different periods of the American history and raised different problems in their works, but still they have something in common. They are both women and they cannot avoid writing about women and their fate.
In the short stories "Lullaby" by Leslie Silko and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Gilman the main characters are women. These two women belong to different social groups and nationalities. At first sight an awfully poor Navajo woman Ayah who is living in a small boxcar shack on a ranch (in "Lullaby") and a comparatively well-to-do white woman living in a colonial mansion (in "The Yellow Wall-Paper") have nothing in common. But on the other hand they are both suffering. The cause of their......

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