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In "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman presents the narrator, being the main character, as an ill woman. However, she is not ill physically. She is ill in her mind. More than any chemical imbalance that may be present; the narrator's environment is what causes her to go mad. The narrator is never directly introduced or ever called by a name. It is obvious that this narrator is a woman, married to a named John. His name is presented, and not hers, for a reason. It is to present the

Yellow Wallpaper" after giving birth to her one and only child. Gilman centered her story around the depression she experienced soon after and the "rest cure" prescribed to her by Weir Mitchell. Gilman states that the purpose of writing "The Yellow Wallpaper" was "to reach Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and convince him of the error of his ways" (Golden). What the author then labeled as "a slight hysterical tendency" (Gilman 1035), is now known as postpartum depression. In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", both

her mental illness. There was a study on marital communication and Millard Bienvenu found that “Two-way communication is rarely found in marriages although it is recognized as one of the elements which tends to solidify the family into an effective group” (Bienvenu). This validates the fact that communication is not always present within a couple, but it is vital for individuals to function properly in a relationship. This was the case for the narrator and John; there was a one-sided way of communication

is supposed to reveal “the absolute truth about a real village located in a prosperous farming district in the Middle West” (Gesell 11). The article dresses itself in the garments of a scientific paper; terms are defined, statistics are presented, groups and different factors are labeled and accounted for, and

people labeled as lonely are likely to have health issues. Social media has guided us to believe that we need to be connected to others. “…the social media revolution has not made us feel more connected, less lonely, or replete with friends” (Barna Group). Social media has input certain beliefs into the minds of people while also taking away that time that could be spent with friends and family. Social media has allowed people to put on fronts and believe that these are the only means of communication

Oxford dictionary liberation is defined as the action of setting someone free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression; release. This word can be best represented in the symbolism in both short stories, Story of an Hour by Choppin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman, but freedom for both the protagonist have very different meaning for what it means to be free is a very subjective term based on the cage in which restricts oneself to fill one 's desires. The two stories are similar in the way both women

being the yellow wall-paper, which also plays a double role: it has the ability to trap her in with its complexity of pattern that leads her to no satisfying end and bars that hold in and separate the woman in the wall-paper from her. However, the wallpaper also sets her free. She describes the wall-paper as being repellent, revolting, a smoldering unclean yellow. She is stuck in this room and her only escape is the wall-paper. She is so confined, because her husband has taken such control over her

prominent neurologist, Gilman was prescribed a “rest cure” which consisted of total bedrest for several weeks and limited intellectual activity thereafter. Postpartum depression was not widely understood. As Gilman put it in “Why I wrote The Yellow Wallpaper?” (1913), the doctor “sent me home after six weeks with the solemn advice to “live as domestic a life as possible, to have but two hours of intellectual activity daily, and never touch pen, brush,or pencil again for as long as I lived. Gilman returned

THE EVILS OF THE “RESTING CURE” “You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.”(Knight 175) Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Early in her life her parents divorced, so her father could remarry.(Wladaver) Despite family problems, she loved an intellectual environment. She studied art at the Rhode Island

anyone to talk to drove her to start hallucinating about the women in the wall. The wallpaper in the room became one of her fetishes. “There are things in the wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”(Narrator, 534) It wasn’t just a small feddish at the end but a large portion of her day would be spent contemplating about the walls colors and designs. She even believed she could smell the wallpaper, throughout the whole house and even in her hair. Her mind started comprehending her