Yellow Wallpaper

This may have effected Jane to be somehow depressed enough to try to either draw or cook like she used to do before the incident. Jane didn't like it when she received sympathy and gifts from strangers and just wanted to be told for once that she was a mess. I think the climax began when Micheal taught her to mow the lawn because it let her apprehend that she would have to help her mom while Micheal was gone, and that one day Jane would be alone. Because of this, Jane chooses to clean the house by herself. She also bought cooking utensils that were designed to help people like her to cook easily, and she did her best to make a good drawing of Justin's dog, Spot, for Justin's

As the reader is introduced to the main character in the story, she is heard talking about strange things happening around her. She secretly wrote her thought in a journal but her husband was against it and never wanted her to do anything. The nameless narrator in her madness sees a woman in the pattern of the wallpaper. In addition, she sees the woman struggling against the bars of the paper and this is a symbol for the struggle of women who attempt to break out from the infringing rules of the society. The woman the narrator sees caught in the wallpapers also parallels her virtual imprisonment in an isolated estate away from her child by her mean husband.

Feminist studies generally focus on the role that hysterical diagnoses and treatments played in reinforcing the prevailing, male-dominant gender roles through the subversion, manipulation and degrading of female experience through the use of medical treatments and power structures. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “ The Yellow Wallpaper” is a perfect example of these themes. In writing this story, Charlotte Perkins Gilman drew upon her own personal experiences with hysteria. The adoption of the sick-role was a product of-and a reaction against gender norms and all of the pressures and tensions that their satisfaction demanded. Gilman’s essay uses autobiographical experiences displayed as doppelganger quality the in the main narrator of the

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is about Jane who has a “nervous condition” (postpartum depression) and her journey to madness. Not only was her husband a doctor, but she went to see a doctor as well who prescribed the “rest cure”. The “rest cure” meant that she was not allowed to write, have company, or do very much of anything at all. Her bedroom was on the top floor away from everyone else and it had bars on the windows, this all made her feel isolated from the rest of the world. Something that we would today find depressing even today. Jane begins to have a fixation on the yellow wallpaper in her bedroom and she believes that she sees a woman trapped behind the wallpaper. She

For some sad reason, people in the days of this book and still today think that because people are poor and small and different that they are not as human as others who are wealthy and like everyone else. I think it is right for Jane to say this. He was treating her very poorly and if I was in her position, I would have done the same thing.

Continual physical abuse gave her injuries, such as bruising and broken bones which she had to hide in public in order to avoid suspicion from friends. A constant fear of other people finding out about the dysfunctional relationship limited her social interactions with people other than her immediate family. This fear isolated her, accentuating her feelings of helplessness during times of trouble, clinging to the idea that everything is fine and he will calm down. Her husband would go from loving Jane wholeheartedly to being determined to kill her, this rollercoaster of emotions made Jane feel confused about what he actually thought about her. These constant threats and confrontations from her husband made Jane and the children feel extremely unsafe, Jane described her experience as gut wrenchingly stressful every waking hour she

Another factor to her hysteria is her husband’s strict regulations on her life and what she is able to do and also the societal constraints that she is fighting against. There are many reasons that Jane becomes insane in “The Yellow Wallpaper” but the most influential idea can be seen by looking at the works of Dr. Robert Carter. His theory was that because of a constraining patriarchal society many women

John picks the upstairs nursery for Jane to stay in and she does not like it one bit. Jane’s opinion of the room is this: “I don’t like our room one bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window” (Gilman 479). It becomes a very unhealthy environment for her to reside in, but John simply cannot see it since he does not believe that anything is truly wrong with her. Because her husband has her on the rest cure, part of the cure is for her to not work or write at all.

Jane was born as Honora Kelley and grew up without a mother and with an alcoholic father. She spent many years of her life in poverty and she was forced to uproot her life to go live in the Boston Female Asylum. After a few years, Jane was adopted by Mrs. Ann Toppan, and Jane spend every day being extremely jealous of her beautiful step-sisters. Especially when she was left at the alter at only 19 years old, she determined she was unlovable and turned dark and hateful. She eventually moved out to become a nurse where not long after got the name nightmare nurse (Lyle, 2011). While working in the hospital which had low supervision and security, this allowed her to do as she pleased. Jane experimented with drugs using morphine and atropine on the patients that she did not like (Lyle, 2011). No one

“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.

Gilman depicts the hazards of mental, physical, and personal confinement and their consequences on the human mind. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman reveals through imagery and personification that personal confinement leads to mental health issues. While the narrator begins with a slight nervous disorder,

Countless individuals have suffered and continue to suffer from mental illnesses all over the world both in the past and in the present. Charlotte Perkins Gilman introduces a character that suffers from a mental illness in her story, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The setting of the story takes place in the nineteenth century and is compiled of a series of journal entries that is written by a woman who is progressively losing all sanity. Her husband John, who is a well-respected physician, believes that his wife’s condition is not in fact a serious case and essentially misdiagnoses her. The narrator suffers through treatment that consists of rest at a remote house that causes her to be isolated from society and develops an obsession with the image of a woman trapped inside the wallpaper in her room.

In a haunted like, victorian gothic style mansion, it is the place John takes the narrator so she can be treated through a rest cure. The mansion does not belong to John or his wife, and they currently don't fit in there. Much like how the narrator doesn't fit her housewife role. The mansion is very secluded, which demonstrates that John was wanting to camouflage the narrator from the public society because he could have been embarrassed of the narrator’s mental illness.

Throughout the novel, Jane is treated as a threat to other characters, either because she is an intruder from the outside community, because she is an enigma or because her ideas are threatening. The other characters marginalize Jane in order to dismiss her or her ideas and threreby transform her ideas into something non-threatening. From the very outset, the characters exclude Jane; even as a child she is excluded from the social group, "Eliza, John and Georgina were now clustered round their mama in the kitchen... she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy little

When she wakes up, Jane finds herself in her own bedroom, with Mr. Lloyd, the SERVANT’s apothecary (a-pa-the-carry, someone who prepared and sold medicine and drugs). The next day Mr. Lloyd returned to check on Jane with Bessie, who tells of her disapproval of Jane’s aunt’s treatment of Jane. He asked about her life at Gateshead, when Jane gets enraged that everyone assumes that her aunt is nice to her, which lead her to telling Mr. Lloyd the truth of why she fell unconscious, (and how Abbot claimed that she had less rights then a servant. 23) Mr. Lloyd after seeing how much Jane wants to leave, asks her if she would rather live poor. No. Leaving, Mr. Lloyd suggests to Jane’s aunt that she should go to school, and Jane becomes excited at the possibility of leaving Gateshead. Later, Jane learns about her past, through conversation between Bessie and