Personal Narrative: The 30s

before (1404). The symptoms that Jane has clearly points to postpartum depression, and the way she is treated for it does not help any.

The 1920s was an amazing time for my country and my family. Normal working people like my family were able to buy cars. We could now see movies, listen to the radio, and listen to the new style of music that we call "jazz". My family was in a great place and we were having fun. But, this didn't last as long as we thought it would. Before we knew it, our economy was collapsing and my parents were struggling to support their 7 kids and our aunt. The Great depression affected my family's and community's life drastically.

I have learned quite some lessons since I was eight years of age. See, I grew up with immense depression, anxiety, insomnia, and minor schizophrenia. Of course, I never knew that because I always thought it was something every child went through, the twist; however, I did not have "Imaginary friends", all-though everyone described those voices as them, they were demons to me. These "demons" patronized me days in and days out. Due to these "demons" I never got to sleep which resulted in hallucinations. These hallucinations concluded with me flailing around thinking I was about to get killed or hit by an oncoming car when there was no car in either direction of me.

When Jane enters where her family waits, “Memories from [her] childhood jarred against the little living room” (Greer 1). Then, the author lists the few items present in their home such as a small light bulb and radio juxtaposing the many decorations and luxuries she experienced growing up. Describing Jane’s recollection as jarring, shows the pain and regret she feels towards her wasteful and materialistic upbringing. Also, when Jane reminisced about the weather “Tears welled up. But they were tears of anger” and thought, Why goddammit?...Why did you have to waste so much and leave so little” (Greer, 3). Greer’s use of Jane’s tears, in conjunction with rhetorical questions emphasizes her regret and dissatisfaction in regards to previously over consuming. The author’s manifestation of frustration through Jane’s emotional expressions elucidate the repentance the couple endures with remembrance of their past. In this case, the text punishes Joe and Jane for their previous wasteful lifestyle as they constantly remember the children and friends they lost. Furthermore, Even though, Joe and Jane live with few possessions and “both [have] good jobs”, their lives reflect the effect of materialism and live simply in

Her step-father figured out where she was living and would constantly come there to sexually abuse her. She got pregnant with her current boyfriend and her step-father found out she was going to have a girl. As soon as she gave birth, he treated his grand daughter the way he should have treated his step daughter. Jane couldn’t deal with her step- father’s abuse anymore so she decided to get away. Her current boyfriend, Steve, helped her once she told him about everything her father was doing.

It was the 1930s and the day was clear, no signs of dust for miles. Only the mounds of dust on the ground leftover from the last storm. The roads were empty so Jaxon said today would be a great day to go, but I didn’t want to. Besides, I already knew what was going to happen I just want to avoid it. It was too perfect, something was up.

Gilman allows the readers to see how the depression has sunk its teeth into Jane and will only let go when Jane has given up on everything that she has ever lived for. Her downward spiral into mania begins when she states, “I pulled… and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper…I declared I would finish it today” (319). Her entire stay in the rest home has built up to her destruction of the paper. Instead of escaping from behind the paper, her depression, Jane decides to rip it away from her life. She rips away the paper to release the Jane that she once was from her riddling depression. Once she starts removing the yellow wallpaper, Jane’s anger takes over her. She starts to think desperate thoughts and can even see herself jumping from the window (320). Jane sees that the quickest way to relieve her seemingly never ending pain and suffering in life is to end it. Through this, Gilman explains how Jane is not only ripping the paper from the wall, but also healing herself from her depression by ripping herself out of this

Her illness seems to worsen but gradually gets better and she begins to realize her imprisonment through the symbolism of the woman she sees in the yellow wallpaper. This woman in the wallpaper during the day creeps around and hides, this exactly how Jane acts during the day. She acts like she’s felling better towards her husband and Jennie hiding her inner struggle from them and the rest of the world.

As we continued along the trail, we were stopped by a very steep hill. Hunter announced that we should dump some stuff from our wagon in order to get on top of the hill. I dump my a tired that I bought recently and a barrel with nothing in it. The trip up the hill was a pain. It took so long to get up the hill I almost fell asleep. My leg was sore and I thinking about giving up. Finally we made it to the top of the hill and we realized that we had to go down the hill. We decided to use our own ropes and slowly descend our wagon one by one. When we descend Curtis’s wagon, Curtis almost fell. He was able to caught himself before he fell down the hill. Well all went down the hill and as we were going down the hill, we saw a divine blue spring

Readers are also able to see that her condition gradually decreases as the story goes on. Jane journals about how in the moonlight, the wallpaper changes to resemble a woman behind bars. In the day, the woman remains subdued and quiet, but at night she seems to come alive and make herself known. Jane starts to get excited when she realizes that the woman comes out every night to visit. She even starts to sleep during the day because she does not want to miss the “developments” that happen during the

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is about a woman named Jane whose husband, a prominent doctor named John, confines her to the top floor of a summer rental home because he believes Jane has “nervous temporary depression”. Charlotte Perkins Gilman calls for reform and attention to the mistreatment of women in the late 1800’s due to the fact that men would lock anyway women if they strayed from being the ideal woman, driving women to actually develop mental illnesses. “The Yellow Wallpaper” chronicles Jane’s confinement to the top bedroom, her deterioration of the nervous condition, and the obsession with the yellow wallpaper. Jane begins the first person narration by saying that her husband and her brother are both physicians

Jane shows her traumatic experience in such public ways because she completely recreated herself in many different ways but especially with how she looked. Before she moved to Kent Waters she cut her hair and dyed her hair black to change herself.She did that because she didn't want to be able to look at herself in the mirror everyday and see what she used to look like when the incident happened now she has a

To begin with, if I got the opportunity to travel back in time, I would choose the 1920's also known as the Roaring Twenties. I would be very excited to watch the Jazz Age emerge. Listening to some of the most talented jazz musicians like, Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington would have been a once in a lifetime experience. I would also want to see Babe Ruth play for the Yankees. He was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Overall, these are some of the reasons I would travel back to the Roaring Twenties.

The day was nearly ending and new things were coming at me. Dinner was made and my clothes were ready on my bed. I laid on the bed and thought about many ideas. Julia really does do many things in this house. “I feel bad for all the times I’ve been rude to her,” I whispered. “But the day is coming to an end, and I am positively sure after this day everything will be normal again.” Then again, what if I wake up at my house and this is still a dream! Well, only one way to find out.

Jane is in an unstable emotional state. Her mood swings cause her anxiety and make her feel helpless and out of control when dealing with her moods. She goes through periods of