Your surroundings influence how you participate in everyday life. Two environments seem completely different, yet they create similar situations through the availability of freedom offered by each environment. Yann Martel's Life of Pi has corresponding situations and distinct differences with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." Both compositions use confinement to heighten their settings, but the means of confinement have different limits and the things they can interact with are extremely separate. The characters in both works communicate with other beings based entirely on their setting. These stories revolve solely around where they happened. Life of Pi explores the limits of confinement in two different settings. Piscine, the character named Pi whose story is shared with readers, lived at the Pondicherry Zoo in India and also survived in the Pacific Ocean for a period of time. At the zoo, Piscine does not directly face confinement, but he witnesses it with the animals his father keeps in captivity. Cages “closed and locked” with “bars and a trap door separate” the animals' homes from each other (Martel 34). The creatures continue to depend on their caretaker to provide them with essential amounts of food, water, attention and care as they are unable to fend for themselves in their new habitat. Pi later experiences everything zoo animals do when he gets stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat after his family's boat sinks while moving to Canada. Imprisonment has a different meaning in his experience. He relies heavily on the few resources he was equipped with on the lifeboat. His situation worsens when he realizes that a Bengal tiger, which he refers to as Richard... in the center of the paper... is based on the setting. Her husband and sister provide all the food, nourishment, shelter and clothing possibly needed for a healthy life. The possibility of them neglecting her seems slim because they care enough about her well-being to help her with her “phosphate or phosphite” disease (Gilman 408). Confinement intensifies the settings of Life of Pi by Yann Martel and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. These stories rely heavily on the element of setting to define the limits of their freedom and survival as human beings. Both present situations similar with restrictions due to the place in which they occur, but their interactions with other things vary depending on the environment. Each character's situation corresponds to that of the other, but differences appear interactions, their territories remain beyond their control.