Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" share similar themes of women being alienated from the community and offer similar solutions to this problem. Nora and the narrator of the yellow wallpaper are both alienated because of the limited role that society places them in. This limited role based on their place as women in society alienates them from the community by making them inferior. This does not only refer to how others perceive them, but how they come to perceive themselves. It essentially becomes an accepted view where the two women both accept being powerless and allow themselves to be dominated. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henrik Ibsen show through their works that the solution to this problem is for women to recognize their limited roles and fight to break free from these roles. .

             Nora and the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" are both alienated from the community because of the limited role that society places them in. This refers to the way that women are viewed as wives and mothers and are not considered to have any greater value or ability. In both cases, the women are not physically isolated from society. Instead, it is more a case where they are isolated because they are not allowed to contribute as individuals or have any power in society. This is seen in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by the way that the narrator's doctor, brother, and husband all do not believe that there is anything wrong, despite the narrator suffering from symptoms of depression. Rather than taking her illness seriously, they consider that she is ill because she is stressing her mind by thinking. This illustrates that women are not even considered as being capable of thought. This is also seen by their solution to her illness, which is for her to avoid any form of thought, including avoiding thinking about her condition.