The Human Heart In Ernest Hemingway's The Yellow Wallpaper

The main character is sent by his father to stay with his grandmother. This is where you learn that the strong heart runs in the family. This is true because she is a seventy-eight year old woman and will still patch out two acres of corn and make enough bread for the winter to do what she can to keep her family feed.  In her old age she hasn’t kept the best health. Some days she is too sick to get out of the bed. The main character takes care of her he cooks all the meals for her and helps her start to feel better. Living with her he hears stories of his father and how he is an honest man. Also his grandmother tells him about his grandfather and all the great things he would do.  Living with his grandmother is a great experience for the main character because she brings him history of his family and teaches him many things on how to live a content life.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” we are introduced to a woman who enjoys writing. Gilman does not give the reader the name of the women who narrates the story through her stream of consciousness. She shares that she has a nervous depression condition. John, the narrator’s husband feels it is “a slight hysterical tendency” (266). She has been treated for some nervous habits that she feels are legitimately causing harm to her way of life. However she feels her husband, a physician, and her doctor believe that she is embellishing her condition. The woman shares with the reader early in the story that she is defensive of how others around her perceive her emotional state. This causes a small abrasion of animosity that

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

The other reading of the story might be based on the maturing of a young woman. As it is probably the most important period in every adolescent's life, when they keep searching for their own identity, it should by strongly influenced by their parents. If it is not, a teenager starts looking for directions outside their home, and sometimes has difficulties with distinguishing what is good and evil. They are very often affected by

In literature, women are often depicted as weak, compliant, and inferior to men. The nineteenth century was a time period where women were repressed and controlled by their husband and other male figures. Charlotte Gilman, wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper," showing her disagreement with the limitations that society placed on women during the nineteenth century. According to Edsitement, the story is based on an event in Gilman’s life. Gilman suffered from depression, and she went to see a physician name, Silas Weir Mitchell. He prescribed the rest cure, which then drove her into insanity. She then rebelled against his advice, and moved to California to continue writing. She then wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which is inflated version of her

From the very style of the story, it is evident that she is deeply thoughtful; she dwells on her surroundings and is analytical of her situation and treatment. This induces a frustrated sympathy in the reader, as one can see the narrator's restrained potential, as she is condemned with the rest 'cure'. Furthermore, the other characters in the story make us feel sympathy for the narrator. John, a practical physician, is married to the narrator, but he treats her more like an infant.

design of his crime: "If you still think me mad, you will think so no

This is a story about the secret, repressed desires of women for individuality and freedom. She states that she feels free. It states that she dies of joy that kills.

old man's eye, "it haunted me day and night. He had the eye of a

I believe that throughout the story it can be concluded that the father did have OCD based on his behavior with certain things. But I also believe that gender identity is another major theme in the story. For example, "But I hate pink, I hate flowers" (128). The daughter was not the typical girl at her age, she hated anything that was girly therefore when her father wanted to switch out her wallpaper to pink flowers she did not particularly agree. Her hair was cut short like a boy but her father wanted her to be more feminine. For instants her father would say, "wash these old curtains so we can put up the hand-embroidered lace ones" (126). Her father was more into design and wanting things to be beautiful and perfect which her daughter did

The story that is A Sorrowful Woman seems to be a story told from the point of view of a narrator who focuses only slightly on the inner conflict of one of the main charters in the story. The character of which I am speaking is never referred to by name, instead is called she, the woman, mommy, and wife throughout the entire story which lends credence to the conclusion of the viewpoint as being told from the outside. The first indication that the focus of the story will be not of a warm and loving nature is the line “The sight of them made her so sad and sick she did not want to see them again”(1). This is where a hypothesis can begin to be formed as to who the antagonist of the story is, bearing the statement above in

In the beginning of the story you have a woman named Mrs. Mallard who struggles with the horrific news of her husbands death that her sister and Richard had informed her about. She showed the emotions that were needed to be shown by any women if they heard this type of news about there husband by “weeping at once with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.” and then leaves herself from the world by locking herself up in her bedroom. At first you believe the conflict to be between her and the death of her husband or the feelings she

The end of this story is very bizarre. The narrator locks herself away in her room. She tares, bites, rips, and destroys the yellow wallpaper that is keeping this woman trapped inside. She seems to go totally insane. When her husband is finally able to break in he seems shocked by the pure insanity of his wife and faints. The narrator is convinced that she was the woman trapped inside the wallpaper and that John and Jane kept her trapped inside of it. In ripping all of the wallpaper off she was able to escape and they wouldn't be able to put her back in, no matter what their efforts. It’s a personal gain for the narrator because she finally realizes that her husband has trapped her inside of this home and this illness. She feels as if he’s

Her naivety in thinking a relationship with a man who was like her father, shows how desperate she was to find her innocence and revert to her childhood. In the end, if it be because of a lack of communication, for throughout the poem she refers to how difficult it was to speak to her own father, or the simple fact of how mentally unhealthy it is to marry one so like her father, the relationship had drained life out of her.

She loves her children but she also calls out their flaws that annoy her because she sees her husband in his children. In her son she sees the selfishness that she hates in her husband. At first she appears as the dutiful wife to her husband but she does not love him, although she does not come to this realization until his death.