Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper

Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, while
distinctly different in genre and era, are widely considered classic texts in second
wave American feminism. Compare chapter 1 (“The Problem That Has No Name”) of
The Feminine Mystique (1963) and The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) in terms of their
persuasive and literary power within their different genres and their visions of
individual and social change. In your analysis, consider both texts’ ability to reflect
upon female life experience and their engagement with dominant ideologies of
marriage, domesticity, motherhood and gender roles in their respective eras. Why were
both texts highly influential in the “second wave” (though one is written in the “first
wave”)? Do either or both texts continue to have personal and/or political relevance in
2019? If “yes”, in what way(s)? If “no”, why not?