The way that the narrator sees a female figure trapped behind the wallpaper, and she images that this figure shakes against the bars or lines of this wallpaper, trying to get out, directly corresponds to her own condition as a woman trapped and intellectually stifled by her husband. The powerful pattern in the yellow wallpaper resembles bars that confine the protagonist in her world of loneliness, helplessness, and infantilism. In "A Jury of Her Peers," there is a similarity in the way that women are obviously trapped and confined by marriage and having to work in their kitchens.