In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator and her husband John can be seen as strong representations of the effects of stereotypical gender roles in the society as a dominant man. and submissive women have marriage. Because John's wife assumes the role of submissive wife, John essentially controlled every aspect of his wife's life, resulting in the couple's failure to properly communicate and understand each other. The story is supposed to revolve around late 19th century America, but it still takes place today. Most marriages still follow traditional gender stereotypes, which can lead a majority of couples to have an unhealthy relationship or file for divorce. Comparing "yellow wallpaper" with the article "The eroticization of inequality in the United States: the consequences and determinants of adherence to traditional gender roles in intimate relationships", the similarities between the injustice of 19th century and 21st century marriage can be examined in more detail. If more couples were able to separate power between the man and the woman, America would have fewer unhappy marriages and divorces. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” we can finally see the separation of gender roles within the two characters. John in the story is an upper-class man, working in a high-ranking profession as a doctor, while his wife is not even given a name, the narrator of the text assumed. Since John is given a role within society, while his wife is recognized as anonymous; it is evident that both characters have developed an overall inequality in assuming their gender roles. John is depicted as "practical to the extreme, he has no patience with faith, middle of paper......throughout the century, the gender roles within their marriage are unbalanced, in Besides, they have a recurring pattern of injustice Overall, we can see that 200 years later we are still trying to escape the gender line created by society's image of men and women. . Men and women still fail to communicate their feelings within their relationships, resulting in an overall unhealthy marriage. Today, women and men are trying to challenge these gender stereotypes by embracing them. roles of the opposite sex, but as in "Yellow Wallpaper", they are immediately met with "strong opposition" and disapproval throughout the process. Although we may seem to be making progress by escaping gender stereotypes, the past. will still be recurring in the majority of relationships today if the dominance within the relationship is not equally balanced between both sexes..