When I look at two nineteenth-century works about change for two women in an American society, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Stephen Crane come to mind. A feminist socialist and a realist writer capture moments that make their readers reconsider life and the world around them. Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in 1892, about a middle-class white woman who was confined to an upstairs room by her husband and doctor, the room's wallpaper both imprisoning her and he breaks free when he suddenly tears the wallpaper. the end of the story. On the other hand, Crane's 1893 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a realistic account of a New York girl and her difficulties growing up with an alcoholic mother and slum life. The images of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane use color in unconventional ways by incorporating color into their narratives to symbolize the opposite of their common meanings, allowing these colors to represent unique associations; support their thematic concerns related to emotional, mental and social challenges through their stories; offering readers the opportunity to question the conventionality of both gender and social systems. The use of color in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephan Crane is crucial when looking at the setting of the story; the repeated use of red is significant when describing Maggie's mother, Mary, and the importance of color in describing the social system throughout the story. Prominently seen when Maggie and Pete go to the theater, parts of the show parallel the lives of ordinary people: "The latter spent most of his time immersed in pale green snowstorms, busy with a nickel-plated revolver . , ri...... middle of paper ...... and fear of the domestic life in which she is imprisoned. These ideas only reiterate the idea of ​​the gilded cage of the nineteenth century and the association of everything what is bad in a society represented by the trappings of domestic life. The symbolism of color in both Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" share the associations of gender, society and realism of the sphere of a woman within a changing and evolving commercial society. As the social changes of the nineteenth century move towards industrialism, naturalism and the rise of new class taboos such as mental illness and poverty, we move away from an ideal domestic Victorian society possessions and thoughts are most representative through the writings of Crane and Gilman as well as other nineteenth-century writers.