In stories "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", the characters suffering had lead them to breaking free of the control that someone had on them.

The story the yellow wallpaper, the suffering of the narrator did not lead to her wisdom. The story in general was trying to show how women suffered before. In the story, the narrator is suppressed by her husband throughout the whole story, which is causing her suffering. The husband believes that by keeping her in the room is good for her and she will be relaxed, also in the beginning of the story it mentions her brother telling her the same. The narrator agrees what her husband and her brother had told her but later in the story starts to second guesses them and thinks that she needs to go outside. But the husband keeps thinking that what he is doing is write and it leads to the narrator going crazy. Her suffering was the husband keeping her locked away and when she finally breaks free she is insane, but she does not gain any wisdom from this. The narrator’s suffering does not lead to wisdom because she goes crazy. She does break free of her husband’s control but she is crazy and she doesn’t know what she is doing.

The Discus Thrower the patient is very sick and is about to die, and the patient himself knows it to. The patient’s suffering does not lead to wisdom. The patient is in a hospital and is very bored and his only form of entertainment is throwing a plate of eggs at a wall. The patient knowing that he is going to die still finds a way to entertain himself. He is able to look at the bright side of things and is laughing even has he lays in his death bed. The patient is never really scared of what is going to happen to him he just sits there with no expression on his face. An example of this is when the doctor is changing the patients bandage, “all this time he does not speak. What is he thinking behind those lids that do not blink? Is he remembering a time when he was whole?” The patient has no emotions and is heartless and the only joy he finds in his life is when he throws a plate at the wall. The patient is suffering but his suffering does not lead to wisdom because he does not acquire any wisdom from his suffering.

Metamorphsis, the main character Gregor, also suffers like the rest of the characters his suffering does not lead to wisdom. Gregor had suffered from being an insect. Throughout the whole story he had been trying to figure out a way of getting out of his room and was thinking over the things that could happen if he just walked out. Through Gregor’s suffering we learn that we don’t actually matter has a person because no one cares about you and you’re just a small little insect to them. Gregor did not actually learn this through his suffering; Gregor was the insect that didn’t matter. Gregor was a symbol of no one actually caring about all they actually care about is the money and you mean nothing to them. At the end of the story Gregor is just pushed back into his room by his dad. His suffering had technically lead to nothing because he end up in the same place that he a started off in.

In conclusion in these stories the characters had suffered a lot but none of their suffering had lead to wisdom. In stories the Yellow Wallpaper and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the characters suffering had lead them to breaking free of the control that someone had on them. These stories also help to prove the point that suffering does not lead to wisdom and it can lead to many different things other than wisdom.