While “White Heron” illustrates how a young girl can reject patriarchy, “The Yellow Wallpaper” examines how women have been historically, socially and medically oppressed by men, Gilman the The narrator becomes a byproduct of patriarchy which causes the narrator to completely submit to a man. Barbara A. Suess, professor of women's studies at William Paterson University, analyzes how "Yellow Wallpaper" shows the progressive psychosis of a woman crushed by the powers of patriarchy. “She [the narrator] represents women who fail to see or are unduly preoccupied with the grotesque nature of their cultural and/or psychological situation, and who move toward an increasingly distorted understanding of themselves. Thus, she accepts the terms which serve to define her” (86-87). While Suess claims that women become obsessed with the ways in which they are culturally or psychologically repressed, "The Yellow Wallpaper" shows how women are systematically stripped of their personal identity. In the first lines of the novel, the narrator is portrayed as weak and lacking in self-confidence; thus, she has given up trying to govern her own actions and thoughts and places her own responsibility on her husband. The narrator describes how she has voluntarily given up making her own life choices and prefers that her husband be in control of her life. She says: “He is very careful and loving, and barely lets me move without special direction. I have a schedule prescription for each hour of the day; he takes every care of me, and I feel so basely ungrateful for not appreciating him more” (Gilman 487). Patriarchal views were manifested in the narrator. She no longer considers herself an independent; therefore, she became middle of paper ...... able to relate to herself with her manic hallucinations, she explains "I don't even want to look out the windows - there are so many these crawling women, and they crawl so fast I wonder if they all come out of this wallpaper like me” (496). . Off Our Backs. May 6, 1971. ProQuest Internet. 8th ed. 2. New York: WW Norton, 2013. Print. Jewett, Sarah Orne. “The Norton Anthology of American Literature.” : WW Norton, 2013. 413-19. Print. Suess, Barbara A. “The Writing is on the Wall” Symbolic Orders in “The Yellow Wallpaper” Women's Studies 32.1 (2003): 79. Academic Search. First. Web. April 24. 2014.