Weather And Mood In The Painted Door By Sinclair Ross

Ann was very selfish woman who only thought of herself. This is when does not want john to go look after his father, who is old and alone. She only want john around. However her marriage is dull, and boring as john think that the best way to prove his loyalty to Ann was to work hard all day long. She ends up having sex in her matrimonial bed with the neighbor and John come to find them there. He decided to commit suicide by walking in the storm.

Each day people face challenges and stressors that affect them mentally. The stressors they face may cause anxiety, depression, and a feeling of being overwhelmed, but the way they handle these emotions is what matters most. In The Beautiful Stranger, it may appear that Margaret is just pretending her husband is a stranger, but taking a deeper look it seems she is mentally unstable. Unfortunately, we do not know the details of John and Margaret’s life prior to John returning home from business, but it is safe to assume that things were not perfect. Was Margaret acting out her dreams of the perfect husband and a better marriage? Was something in Margaret’s life, causing her a mental breakdown? What was causing John’s behavior to be out of the norm? Had John truly been replaced by a new man? Shirley Jackson did an excellent job creating mystery in this story, but she also included many hints throughout it to help us build our own understanding.

The natural landscape and the winter storm in “The Painted Door” serve as a metaphor for Ann’s sense of isolation. The story uses the atmosphere and its surroundings to foreshadow the reader about the main character Ann’s emotions and mood. The farm that Ann and John live at, is very isolated from everyone. The closest neighbour they have is “five miles away” from them. Ann isolation is emotional and physical ,she especially feels isolated from the one person she’s suppose to feel the completely opposite about. In the story we learned that John is very hard working, he shows his love to Ann by working hard to get her the things she wants. The setting of the story, the environment surrounding Ann is isolated, depressing and cold. Ann feels emotionally blocked from the walls that John has put up.

Every request the woman in the story has made to her husband has been dismissed and her depression continues to worsen because she has lost control of her own life. John fails to understand how it feels for his wife to be trapped in her room all day. “He forces his wife into a daily confinement by four walls whose paper, described as ‘debased Romanesque,’ is an omnipresent figuring of the

It is stated from the very beginning that she is mentally ill when she says, “...I am sick!” (Gilman 1). Both her and Holden are mentally disturbed, so their relay of events could very well be unreliable because they are not in the proper mind state. Also, the narrator states, “[John] is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (Gilman 2). As the reader goes on, he or she realizes that John is, in fact, not kind and loving; the reader sees that he locks her away and keeps her secluded and unbusy so that he does not have to deal with her himself. Nonetheless, the narrator comes to realize what the reader has known all along; John is an insensitive narcissist. The narrator expresses her newfound feelings about John when she says, “The fact is that I am getting a little afraid of John...he seems very queer sometimes...” (Gilman 10). This is also evident when she exclaims, “I don’t like the look in [John’s] eyes… [He] pretended to be very loving and kind. As if I couldn’t see through him!” (Gilman 12-13). Not only are her changing feelings about John corroboration of her unreliability, but the fact that she sees a woman inside of cages that no one else sees behind the yellow wallpaper in her room is also proof that she is untrustworthy for facts. She sees this, but nobody else does; therefore, her point of view is unrealistic and thus undependable. Nevertheless, just like with Holden Caulfield, the story, along with the author’s message, would not be depicted accurately if it was not told from the narrator’s point of view. It would actually just be a very boring story about a woman who seemed to go insane for no apparent reason. Because the reader gets a first hand look at what the narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is thinking, feeling, and doing when she is all alone, he or she is

When it comes to literature, weather can be used in many different ways. It can symbolize theme, set the mood of the story, and even affect the plot. In Tangerine by Edward Bloor, the weather acts as a plot device and as a symbol.

Wisdom and Knowledge are related to the painted door as Ann experiences loneliness and isolation from her husband John since he is occupied with work all day. "Pay no attention to me. Seven years a farmer 's wife - it 's time was used to staying alone." John leaves, trusting both Ann and Steven to have a friendly game of cards. When John returns he sees the unexpected, he finds both Anna and Steven in bed, at the sight of that John rushes out and freezes himself to death. Ann now will have to use her wisdom through her knowledge and experience to face her, even more, loneliness and isolated future without john. Sinclair believes that Isolation will test and perhaps divide relationships.

In a healthy relationship, both parties should be able to openly confide in one another, and understand that the other’s intentions are to benefit the other and yet respectfully compromise on decisions together. With that said, in Sinclair Ross’s short story entitled The Painted Door, the message of how lack of communication can result in dire circumstances is exquisitely envisioned. Moreover, as the seemingly conventional young rural couple’s story gradually progresses, the implications of Ann, the emotionally suppressed wife of John being left alone during an unbearable blizzard fatally brings to end their partnership. Through symbolism and other literary devices, Ross cleverly constructs the themes of isolation and loyalty in this 1939

John, the narrator’s controlling, but loving, husband represents the atypical man of the time. He wants his wife to get better and to be able to fill the role of the perfect wife that society expected from her. John, being a doctor, did not quite believe that her mental illness was out of her control and insisted on

This implies that she’s lost all hope of communication and understanding between her and John in their marriage. She no longer holds the hope that she will get better with the help and support of her husband. This only throws the woman farther and deeper into depression in the prison of her mind. Because she lacked the feelings of fulfillment, love and support, she fell into a deep and dark depression that affected her both physically and emotionally.

John is characterized by Gillman as being very analytical, very scientific in thought. As such, so when he fails to find anything physically wrong with his wife he attributes it to fatigue, almost refusing to entertain the idea that it might be an emotional unsoundness that afflicts her. There also appears to be an immense lack of communication between the narrator and her husband John. "I had no intention of telling him it was because of the wallpaper", says the narrator, referring to her husband, "he would make fun of me. He might even want to take me away"(Gillman 583). This paucity of interchange and inability of John to truly listen to his wife's needs are the ultimate sources of conflict in the story.

Sinclair Ross heavily incorporates rich description into his style. His diverse vocabulary sets him apart from other authors, and it causes his stories to come to life. In “The Painted Door”, Ross describes the weather “…sun was risen above the frost mists now, so keen and hard a glitter on the snow… its rays seemed shedding cold.” These words have an impact on the situation/climate of the story; “shedding cold” distinguishes clarity between something ‘chilly’ in contrast to something ‘freezing cold’. The use of the sun’s rays, normally associated with warmth, “shed cold” inspiring an image of a bright, frosty winter day as opposed to a sunny day on the beach. “Hard a glitter” gives an icy feeling and a cold ambiance. He also uses terms such as “draft was bitter”, and “icy floor”, which

The narrator’s feelings of inferiority and powerlessness parallels the female figure she sees trapped behind the pattern in the wall-paper adorning her room. She gradually withdraws from both John and reality by locking herself in the room and ultimately merging with the figure. Through the changing image of the pattern from a “fait figure” (Gilman 46) to a “woman stooping” (Gilman 46) behind the paper and “shaking the bars” (Gilman 46) as if she wanted “to get out” (Gilman 46), we can see her becoming one with the figure: “I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper.”(51) Her collapse into madness as reflected in her behavior with the “bedstead [that] is fairly gnawed” (Gilman 51) and her “creeping all around” (Gilman 50) is a direct result of her passive submissiveness to John’s control of her life.

On the first page, when John decides to visit his father, he leaves Steven his best friend with his wife Ann to keep her company because she does not like to be left alone at home. When she is usually alone, “she [needs] something to keep her hands occupied, something to stave off the gathering cold and loneliness” (3). In result, she decides to paint. She paints the kitchen woodwork and the bedroom door white. The paint symbolizes things she enjoys doing when she needs comfort because John is rarely ever around to accompany her from the loneliness she feels. As Ann is alone at home, diction shows the thought of sadness when she thinks about their seven years of marriage. She keeps thinking “Seven years a farmer’s wife” (1). Ann sees herself less as

In the story Storm by Kate Chopin, there is a housewife named Calixta. In the story, she is waiting for her husband Bibinôt and her son Bibi to come home. As Calixta waits, she is doing chores around the house, until she sees Alicee ride up to her home on his horse. A strong storm starts to brew and Alicee has no choice but to take shelter inside her home. As the storm goes on Calixta and Alicee have an affair. At the end of the story, the storm is over. Calixta and Alicee affair comes to an end and Alicee goes back home. Calixta’s husband comes home to his wife, and nobody expects a single thing about what had just occurred. The storm is the symbol of passion and love brewing between Calixta and Alicee because as the storms grew stronger so did their affair. Calixta herself represents women in this time period who were feeling unwanted or not heard in a society ruled by men. The Storm symbolizes the marriage between Calixta and her husband, even though there isn’t a flat out reason for the affair, the reader can tell that their relationship may have been rocky. Chopin uses the color white to represent the innocence and purity Calixta had before having an affair with another man who isn’t her husband. The authors intent by writing the storm is to talk about a woman feelings during that era. Through symbolism, the author talks about the physical and physiological feelings and emotions women have gone through during this time period.