Peggy Mitchell

Frank practices self-awareness when he is outside his house and looks around and notices that all their neighbors have Christmas ornaments on and in front of their houses but he doesn’t. His house is the only one on the block that does not have that Christmas spirit. By practicing self-awareness, which is discovering what his emotions are about this, he understands his feelings and starts to decorate his house giving it the touch it needs for this particular season. While talking on the phone with

Once inside the haunted house she discovers the yellow wallpaper. Which leads her to have an obsession over and she seeks to explore the wallpaper. The narrator comes upon the wallpaper because her husband John decides every aspect of her life. John chose and upstairs room contrary to what the narrator wanted. Originally the narrator was drawn to a room with an opening to the garden, however, that was not taken into account and she was consigned to the upstairs room. Which, was a “former nursery

In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Gilman, the main character seems to be trapped in a controlling relationship. Jane, the wife, distraught with a mental illness while her husband dismisses her claims. John, Jane’s husband, controls Janes every move and refuses to let her write or do any physical activity. For Jane, writing is a stress reliever, a way to escape from reality. Since Jane’s husband wants her to stop expressing herself, so Jane creeps around her husband

John is a high-position doctor who tells his significant other that he just wants the best for her, yet he settles on each choice in regards to her life, directly down to who she gets the chance to spend time with and where she gets the chance to rest. The narrator says her better half john is “functional in the great.” According to the narrator, “He has no tolerance with confidence, an extreme frightfulness of superstition, and he jeers transparently at any discussion of things not to be felt and

From all the mass media surrounding me, I’ve come up with a list of things that manifest love: deep gaze under the night sky, long walk on the beach, kiss under the mistletoe, blush when the eyes meet … images filtered by warm, gentle light with soundtrack of laughter and guitar beats. I always knew that love can be every small but precious moment in life, yet, what I didn’t know was it can also be something quite bizarre, such as a spit in someone’s food. I was sitting on a bench, ready for lunch

In the story, “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl there are numerous red flags where a young man, Billy, has trouble trusting his instincts. Billy is quite intrigued when he finds a Bed and Breakfast that is inexpensive. He finds the sweet old lady to be a little off, but ignores it until he realizes what she will do to him. In this story, Dahl shows that Billy should trust his instincts when something seems off, otherwise something awful might end up happening to him. The first red flag happens in the

"(Gilman 653) Which probably stems from his threatening spirit which can be seen in the quotation on page 650 where he threatens to send his wife away if she does not get better soon "John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall. But I don't want to go

In Amy Bloom’s short story, “Silver Waters”, the narrator, Violet, reveals the struggles of mental illnesses that Rose, her sister, suffers with. Violet discusses the many psychiatric wards Rose ends up in and the therapists that the family hates. More times than not, the family ends up protecting Rose from many of the dangers that the world possesses, like confusing insurance policies. Throughout the novel, the psychiatrists and therapists do not seem to care about Rose or the fact that she is more

Firstly, it can be argued that the prevalence of socially accepted patriarchal credo in the novella ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ attributes to the manifestation of the narrator’s mental breakdown. This is particularly evident through the narrator’s intimate stream of consciousness in which she aligns the reader to her sense of resignation towards patriarchal rule; ‘John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage’. The narrator’s use of the phrase ‘of course’ reinforces her sense of expectation

The autobiographical novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a story that observes events of Esther Greenwood, a woman that is trying to subdue her true potentials in a male dominated society that’s holding her back from achieving her goals during that time which women's rights were not really recognized yet in our society. In this story she has many nervous breakdowns and suicide attempts due to her feeling depressed and being trapped. This is a novel that has a lot of feminism on how women are treated