Should the Male Chauvinism be abolished? Women were long regarded naturally weaker than men, which is always misunderstood that women have fewer rights than men have. Despite the increasing public awareness and the effective progresses, the rights between women and men have never been equalized. In other words, men more likely play the dominant role in decision-makings.
Generally, male chauvinism is one of the major issues caused the gender discrimination. For instance, according to the Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman used the first person narrator to narrate that in order help her recover from the nervous depression, her husband stopped her from doing everything except taking a rest (Gilman 1899). The author used this narrative point of view to express how she was ignored, but incapability had no choice to change it. Moreover, the author intentionally emphasized her husband’s high social status while comparing with her menial work, which strongly represents the imparity between men and women. Through this writing style, Gilman modeled this female protagonist with unlimited potential but did not get acceptance, was asked to give up writing and even her imagination was deprived. All these details symbolized that she was bound up in fetters of male chauvinism.
Furthermore, Gilman used abundant descriptions of the repellent yellow wallpaper and her attitude to express how tightly she was tied by the male chauvinism. Especially, this dull yellow wallpaper plays a vital role in symbolizing the discrimination of women, which strongly affected Gilman’s mind and finally made her crazy (Gilman 1899). For looking at this ironic yellow wallpaper, Gilman saw a woman who was imprisoned like her, so she attempted to struggle to the free of herself, which effectively shows how humble the woman social roles were. Also, as she mentioned, “I get positively angry with the impertinence of