The Yellow Wallpaper Reading Response

Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses her short story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” to show how women undergo oppression by gender roles. Gilman does so by taking the reader through the terrors of one woman’s changes in mental state. The narrator in this story becomes so oppressed by her husband that she actually goes insane. The act of oppression is very obvious within the story “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and shows how it changes one’s life forever.

One similarity between the two works is the that we are limited on where we get our information. Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” we see everything through the eyes of the narrator. The entire story is told from her secret diary when she has the time to write as shown in the line, “I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal-having to be so sly about it” (Gilman 527). Due to this, we can only make assumptions based on the information we get from her. She tells us she is in “A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate” (Gilman 526) and that she stays in “a big, airy room…It was a nursery first and then a playroom and gymnasium” (Gilman 527). However, once we reach the end of the story, with the

   There are more reported cases of clinical depression in women than their are in men. There is also, generalized in western cultures, a stereotype that women are fragile and should be more dedicated to maintaining the home, doing feminine things, that they shouldn't work, and be discouraged from intellectual thinking. In the Victorian period (1837-1901) aside from women's suffragette movements the Victorian woman usually upheld this stereotype of a well behaved wife, more or less a possession then an individual. However, there were a few who defied the odds and took it to heart to let the world know about the indifference's that they went through. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist, was one of

Maily T. Ly TLIT 101 - Professor Liner Monday, February 26, 2018 Response Paper #3 (Fiction) - Rough Draft "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Medicine" was written in 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was born Hartford, Connecticut. She suffered depression and fatigue for several years. " The Yellow Medicine" was basically an exaggerated version of her own experience. The point-of-view of this story is first person.

Megan Skolmen  31/05/2015  The Yellow Wallpaper  Short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman  Published 1892    I read a short story called ‘The Yellow Wallpaper” written by a well-known feminist intellectual author from the late 1800’s, Charlotte Perkins.  This story follows a female narrator – her name never mentioned – and her spiral into insanity. The said insanity is caused by an assumed nervous depression in which she suffers with, and the constant belittling of her illness and her general thoughts/ concerns that her physician of a husband imposes.

The short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a story about the struggle of a woman to gain her freedom and to get her own life apart from her controlling husband. The physician, who also happens to be the woman’s husband, keeps her in a room, as a form of “treatment”. He claims that she is psychotic, but after reading the text, I felt that the woman was only driven to insanity because of the so called “treatment” that her husband set forth. From being kept in this room for so

Craziness and insanity may be observed as a negative quality, but it also links to creativity in ways of thinking differently from the average mind, which is the way the narrator thinks in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This short story is based on the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and what she experiences while put under the “rest cure”. “Gilman suffers a near mental breakdown in the mid 1800’s, and been prescribed a rest treatment very similar to the one prescribed to the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” (Korb, Rena. “An Overview of “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Gale Online Encyclopedia). She writes this story as if it were various journal entries written by the narrator in a first person point of view. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the narrator faces depression, insanity and anxiety caused by her surroundings and the treatment she is put under.

“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.”. In The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is essentially locked in a house by her husband, a physician. Charlottes short story is considered autobiographical fiction, in other words, a fictitious story that is inspired by the authors life experiences. Charlotte’s quote, and her story The Yellow Wallpaper reflect not only on her life, but many other women and the mentally ill. From previous knowledge and even hints given in the story, women were given little respect, and mentally ill were not taken seriously.

Throughout history and cultures today, women have been beaten, verbally abused, and taught to believe they have no purpose in life other than pleasing a man. Charlotte Perkins Gillam uses her short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" as a weapon to help break down the walls surrounding women, society has put up. This story depicts the life of a young woman struggling with postpartum depression, whose serious illness is overlooked, by her physician husband, because of her gender. Gillman 's writing expresses the feelings of isolation, disregarded, and unworthiness the main character Jane feels regularly. This analysis will dive into the daily struggles women face through oppression, neglect, and physical distinction; by investigating each section

A short story is engaging, if its focus is on one character, a variety of literary devices are used to show rather than tell a story and an impressive and well-built plot. To prove my point of view, I will use “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

How does society’s values and beliefs shape individuals? In society men are considered to be more dominant over women, which restricts the rights of women to have the equal freedom that men have. Because of this, it really stops womens to have thoughts on how their life runs. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, it is shown in a first person view of a woman who is caged in a room by her physician husband, who believes she is suffering from a temporary nervous depression, when she is actually suffering from is mental illness. Gilman, in the short story uses gender roles in which the narrators unequal relationship with John because of a larger gender inequality in society, and the pressure of society affecting the individual's health to show the theme of how society could shape an individual's daily life.

Imagine feeling like a prisoner in own your own body, and in your own mind. And you have little to no energy, or motivation to do anything. Picture not being able to just let go of the little things before they become big things in your mind and consuming your every thought. Or ultimately feeling like you just want to crawl under a rock, and die. Now how much worse do you think you would feel if no one believed you, or seemed interested in helping you get better? I know from personal experience it makes you feel so helpless, so worthless; and it is detrimental to your health forcing your depression to worsen. And this neglect was far more common for women before the 21st century dealing with psychological problems. "The Yellow Wallpaper" draws attention to the female experience with depression in the late 19th century by showing the lack of a voice, the misdiagnoses, and the ridiculous treatments they were subjected to.

Everyday we go through changes, some are good and others bad. Most humans have a breaking point and when you hit that level, you don’t know what to do anymore, but in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman the narrator is compulsive. The story focuses on a woman who is diagnosed with a “temporary nervous depression” and has multiple breakdowns. Her husband John is a “physician of high standing” and moves her into a house where she can rest in isolation to recover. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses setting and symbolism to suggest that imprisoning oppression causes a type of loneliness that can lead to a deadly physiological form.

In The Yellow Wallpaper there are two details that seem irrelevant that turn out to be relevant after reading the story. In the beginning of the story the narrator talks about her room with the bars on the windows and the wallpaper torn off the walls from the children who lived in the house before. Another detail would be when the narrator sees the woman in the wall. These two details seem to be irrelevant when you first read the story.

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is written from the perspective of a woman who is diagnosed by her physician-husband as having “a slight hysterical tendency.” The story is from her first-person perspective of this “temporary nervous depression.” Her husband John loves her, but is condescending: “He is very careful and loving and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (648). He calls her