The Pygmalion Effect is when ones expectations are met. This is usually between a coach and player, teacher and student, parent and child, doctor and patient or even ones own expectations. In the play "Pygmalion", we see the teacher/student relationship. In "Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Pygmalion Effect is seen in two relationships; the doctor patient relationship and ones own expectations. However while the play Pygmalion supports the Pygmalion Effect, Yellow Wallpaper …showed first 75 words of 533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 533 total…the Pygmalion Effect. The Pygmalion Effect is when ones expectations are met. The two stories both prove their own sides to the Pygmalion Effect. Whether supporting it or rebutting it. We see how the expectations weakened and fell in the "Yellow Wallpaper", and how they were met and exceeded in "Pygmalion". The Pygmalion Effect is only a theory not a psychological law. Thus leaving room for the cases such as those in the "Yellow Wallpaper".