Paper Tolls By Sherwoon Anderson Summary

She has been shown to see things in black-and-white, probably because of her own wanting to belong. She wants, or rather needs, to get to know the people around her, and even if she doesn’t realize it, this is tricking her mind into believing everything they say is

The Master’s Toll by Audre Lorde contribute a great deal to the feminist discourse and working towards building a strong foundation to wards life. Audre Lorde expressed her disappointment in the fact that minorities were not considered or even taken into account during the conference. She also implied that white feminist at the conference were treating minority groups such as blacks, lesbians, and poor women just as the patriarchal society has been doing.

The brain is a strong but delicate muscle inside the human body. However, if this muscle gets overworked it will affect the overall persona of that individual. Depression or any other mental diseases are not diagnoses or setbacks that should be taken lightly. Back in the 1800’s and 1900’s medicine and the knowledge of the individuals that decided to practice medicine was not extensive. Due to medicine, not being as advanced as it is today, a lot of patients were getting treating improperly. The character within The Yellow Wallpaper is a great example of not only a mental disease but also malpractice. Although the main character within The Yellow Wallpaper may be a woman of high social status, the narrator goes mad for the following reasons: she is extremely drugged with improper medicine, she lacks autonomy, and her post-partum depression escalates. Some might say that the story of The Yellow Wallpaper is simplistic, however, it can also be viewed that the simplicity of the story is what makes it complicated and comprehensive.

Knowing that she and her family are able to survive such distressing situations without having to jeopardize their views allows her to have faith in her family's future and gives

Dreams and hopes flow in and out of minds—feeling mockingly close but sometimes, in a distant reality. Doctor Reefy, of Sherwood Anderson’s “Paper Pills,” burdens these hopeful thoughts by writing them down and pocketing them. But once these thoughts become stale with loneliness, they crumble into paper pills. The relatability of Doctor Reefy’s struggles makes him a very sympathetic character to the reader.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Silas Weir Mitchell were part of two worlds, one having to live and be treated for a nervous condition and the other having to study the conditions of nerves. Yet, in this particular moment in the late-19th century United States, one can detect a dialogue between doctor and patient in each of their short stories. That is exactly what is detected between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and S. Weir Mitchell. While both The Case of Dedlow and the Yellow Wallpaper use fiction to express themselves more thoroughly about mental health and science, The Case of Dedlow is more concerned with the aspect of scientific case study while the Yellow Wallpaper focuses on indicting science. This paper will compare and contrast the narratives of the aforementioned short stories and discuss the significance of their reception and how their audience understood them.

Mitchell’s treatment of the typical female seeking his world famous rest cure. Wagner-Martin states that the rest cure "depended upon seclusion, massage, immobility, and overfeeding; . . . [it] had at its root complete mental inactivity" (982). Carol Parley Kessler, in her essay on Gilman’s life, quotes Dr. Mitchell’s prescription to Gilman as, "never touch pen, brush, or pencil" (Kessler 158). Gilman subjects her narrator to the same prescription. You can tell from the story that the narrator wants to write and that she thinks that being allowed to do so would help her mental and emotional condition. She says, "I think . . . it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me" (Gilman 81).

She tends to repeat things that hurt people's feelings and doesn't know when to keep certain truths to herself because she doesn't know right from wrong all the way yet. “Don't you know that when they keep saying someone is on a trip, it really means he is dead”?

that she has an influence on her own future.  She begins to develop what she

"Paper Pills" is the second chapter of the novel and deals with another cause of isolation, the inability to communicate thought. Because Doctor Reefy is afraid of communicating directly to another person, he writes his thoughts on little pieces of paper to prevent his

reluctance to admit her father’s death. When he dies, she refuses to let anyone remove his body from their house. It’s as if she feels she needs his comforting and protection.

The selfishness is evident through her careless behaviors. Ignorance is also a key trait of her personality. In The Great

makes her seem like she is special and as if she was ‘god sent’. All

to be weak and naïve in the eyes of her father. We can tell this from

She wasn’t ever afraid of what other people thought of her, one of her most admirable traits. She simply does what she believes is best for her and truly brings the most meaning to what it means to live one’s life to the fullest.