Love in The Yellow Wallpaper, Hlls Like White Elephants,...

Love in The Yellow Wallpaper, Hlls Like White Elephants, and A Dolls House True love is the love that everyone fantasizes about. It is the love that is unconditional and everlasting. Love is very hard to define since everybodys concept of love is different. However, in order to achieve a good relationship, people must have a well balanced power structure in their relationship, and good understanding and communication between them. In the stories, The Yellow Wallpaper,; Hills Like White Elephants,; and A Dolls House,; one could see the lopsided relationship between the males and females. In these stories the males predominates the females, and the characters seem to lack understanding, and communication toward another,†¦show more content†¦She is just trying to do what he wants to do, to please him, even though she does not like it. He says that, Its really an awfully simple operation#8230;not really an operation at all.; He does not know the feelings and pressure that the girl is under, and not being the person who has to have the operation, he cou ld say that easily. However, if he really cared about her, he should listen to her inner thoughts. There should be a more serious and honest conversation between these people. The girl should not compromise if it bothers her, and she should clearly state what she thinks. What the girl wants is not the sweet words such as, I love you now,; or I care about you,; but real action where he shows his caring and loving by truly understanding her. We also see a misunderstanding and unbalanced relationship in the story The Yellow Wallpaper,; by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In this case, the main characters are husband and wife. The wife has a temporary nervous depression and is repressed by her whole surroundings. First of all the room she has to stay is very confined having bars, and has little funiture and ugly wallpaper. She is left in the room by herself during the day, while her husband is at work. Her husband and her brother are physicians who are highly educated, and whatever they say seem right. The housekeeper also, who is her sister-in-law is a perfect housekeeper which gives comparison with the wife who is