How Does Molly Contribute To Her Husband's Health Issues

Her loving husband, John, never takes her illness seriously. The reader has a front row seat of the narrator’s insanity voluminously growing. He has shown great patience with the recovery of his wife’s condition. However, the narrator is clear to the reader that she cannot be her true self with him. In the narrator’s eyes she feels he is completely oblivious to how she feels and could never understand her. If she did tell him that the yellow wallpaper vexed her as it does he would insist that she leave. She could not have this.

She has been trained to trust in her husband blindly and sees no other way. He calls her “little girl” (352) and “little goose” (349) and states “She will be as sick as she pleases!” (352) whenever she tries to express her issues. Instead of fighting for what she thinks will make her better she accepts it and keeps pushing her feelings aside, while he treats her like a child. We get an instant feel for her problem in the first page when she says, “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that” (pg 346). A woman shouldn’t expect her husband to laugh at her concerns. Even after briefly writing about her condition she remembers her husband telling her the very worst thing she can do is think about it and follows his instructions. This is when she begins to focus on the house instead of her problems and the obsession with the wallpaper starts. She has nothing else to think about alone in the home; they don’t even allow her to write, which she has to do in secret.

She seems to express how she feels She has a journal that she writes her experiences from day to day despite her doctor’s orders. She feels as if the journal relieves her mind and is an escape from the way she is being treated. She is forced to hide her journal because her husband would not approve of her activities because they were contradicting his orders of rest. In her journal, she expresses how the yellow wallpaper is bothersome to her. Her husband threatens to send her to another doctor (Mitchell?) who she has visited before and who seemed to have tortured her more than help, after she is visited by family and is constantly fatigued. Due to being confined to her room for excessive amounts of time

She allows herself to believe all she is told. She also allows herself to believe that being treated as she is is going to make her better, when in fact it is only making her worse. Her being sent up in a room, like a penitentiary will add loneliness to her illness. Her being told not to write or not to go and see family and friends, again, adds to her loneliness. She is separated from society. Therefore, she feels as though she is alone in society. She gives into the fact that the male-dominated society would rather her alone, than be with lots of women and cause chaos. She gives into everything the world wants instead of listening to her inner self. She ignores herself, causing her to act out in madness. When one does not listen to one's inner self, he or she is then turning away from his or her conscience. It's like the "devil and angel" episode that has been seen in numerous cartoons. If the person listens to the little devil, it will end up being the wrong decision. It the person listens to the little angel, it will be the right decision. The narrator listens to almost neither. She allows what is happening to happen and does nothing but sit back. This would cause anger inside anyone.

As seen in Arnie, genetics disabilities can cause difficulties in certain parts of life, such as language, learning and independent living. Indirect genetic effects can also occur due to environmental influences, or “gene-environmental correlations and interactions.” Issues such as depression and generalized anxiety can influence a person to “shape and select” their environment, further influencing other people’s responses to them, or the social environment. While some people are more resistant to psychosocial stresses, others, like Bonnie, are more susceptible, which would explain her depression after her husband’s death and her obesity in response to stress. After her husband’s death, Bonnie not only gave up in life, becoming obese, but also eventually became unable to take care of her own

optimistic about her disease, she could have turned around her disease. But since she had no positive vibes, she ended up dying from it.

In the case of Rebecca Hasbrouck, the single factor that led to her breakdown was lack of proper coping skills. Rebecca was confronted with several stressful life challenges that she struggled with. It was the first time she was away from home, she had difficulty sleeping, she had no close friends, and her boyfriend was attending college in another city. In addition to these contributing factors, Rebecca was having a hard time adjusting to college life in general. Rebecca felt overwhelmed with her new responsibilities as a college student who was lacking social support. Her social support was her family, close friends, and her boyfriend. With Rebecca’s mother’s history of becoming easily overwhelmed, it is not unusual for Rebecca to mimic

This essay will provide a theoretical understanding of the four ethical frameworks: Consequentialism, Non- Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics and Care Ethics. When applied to a situation these frameworks help teachers to resolve and justify their decision making. The objective is to apply the four frameworks to the scenario Helping Molly, to establish the most ethical course of action. Finally, a recommended course of action will be justification. The overarching ethical issue present within the Helping Molly scenario is the community sponsorship and the alignment with school beliefs and initiatives.

She seems to be reluctant to accept help from others and almost self-pitying to the point that reader’s wonder how badly she truly wants her migraine to go away. “Whatever people gave you from their overflowing hearts they remembered, and expected you to remember,

struggle through life with a negative outlook, battling with depression and cancer, which were the upsetting and unsatisfying cards which fate dealt her. She went through life upset because life had given her a rough battle. Nothing she did or could do would have changed the fact that she was sick. That was not her doing, and she coped with it the only way she knew how, which was with negativity. It wasn’t until she changed her outlook, and started focusing on the positive moments in life that the readers see her life change.

“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.” Greenwood’s moods shift too quickly and too much as she deals with great amounts of anxiety, loneliness, and depression that it has become unbearable. She holds too much envy on to others such as on Joan, “ and becomes self-conscious. “I felt dreadfully inadequate.” Esther’s atmosphere continues to decline and she longer has the will to try in life.

G.H. is a 39 year old white female patient, who is 5’4, and 240 lbs. Since her brother died five years ago of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, she has experienced weight gain and depression. She feels both are the result of her grief, a concept which is congruent to the ecological systems theory, which maintains that different environments throughout a person’s lifespan may influence their behavior in various ways (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). G.H. is currently being treated for her depression and hypertension with the medications Effexor and Losartan, respectively. She claims to be in a happy marriage of 8 years, and speaks with joy about her six year old son. She states job satisfaction in her current and stable position of employment and feels close to her co-workers. She receives enjoyment from social outings planned with her

He collapsed on a fence and was “trembling with fear” when he saw mother nature “screaming and bleeding.” Like the woman from The Yellow Wallpaper and from Jacks McNamara, his unique world he sees makes him susceptible to experience emotions. These emotions, along with mental illness itself, will beautifully find its place within their

Internal Conflict: Hannah’s eternal conflict is with herself and constantly thinking about taking her own life and committing suicide. Another internal

It was interesting reading of Esther’s mother’s perspective on her illness and her misunderstanding of it, which is a theme I’ve seen across the works we’ve read so far in this class. In The Bell Jar, her mom seems to have the idea that Esther is depressed on her own accord and says at one point how glad she is that Esther “decided to be well again” as if it’s been in her control the whole time. This relates to the rest cure in The Yellow Wallpaper because with that, the idea is that the state of rest, lack of intellectual stimulation, and a carb based diet will make the person want to have their normal life back, so therefore they will be back to normal. However, this was a misunderstanding of the illness similar to how it is misunderstood in The Bell Jar. This made me think about how some people view suicide as selfish whereas that is really just a misunderstanding of what can bring someone to want to kill themselves.