Yellow Wallpaper Research Paper
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a gothic short story, written by Charlotte Gilman, who deals with various breakdowns after the birth of her first born baby. The main character is portrayed as insane and can be seen better through the setting, the life behind her story, the cure she needs to overcome her mental illness, the time period, and all around the depression itself that the main character is going through. This short story is a learning factor in women’s mental breakdowns and illnesses. Also, it shows the ways the story sets up the points to where the protagonist is having these breakdowns after the birth of her first born child.
Jane, the main character of the story, is compared to the life behind …show more content…
Throughout the story, it is explaining the breakdowns of Jane, the protagonist which is compared to the author, Gilman. The author is writing this story to tell her background about her life and the things she has gone through dealing with Postpartum Depression. The words form the article states that, Gilman’s purpose of writing these short stories were to allow her to express her ideas on women’s issues and on social reform (“Charlotte”).” Harvard states that Gilman has written this story to show her own experience of a deteriorating marriage and her resulting mental breakdown” (“From Woman To Human”). As you can see, author Charlotte Gilman and Jane are the same exact …show more content…
The rest cure was focused on Jane, the main character of the story, and was supposed to make her illness go away or make it better. As the story goes on, the reader can just notice how Jane is getting worse and worse after she is diagnosed to the rest cure by her doctor. Jane explains how the cure is not helping her one bit and how her mental breakdowns are getting out of hand (Gilman). Jane wants to completely stop the cure because it is useless and there is no need to keep going through things when the breakdowns just keep getting more awful the minute of her life. The story explains how the cure is a point in the reason why Jane is having these mental breakdowns and
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a gothic short story, written by Charlotte Gilman, who deals with various breakdowns after the birth of her first born baby. The main character is portrayed as insane and can be seen better through the setting, the life behind her story, the cure she needs to overcome her mental illness, the time period, and all around the depression itself that the main character is going through. This short story is a learning factor in women’s mental breakdowns and illnesses. Also, it shows the ways the story sets up the points to where the protagonist is having these breakdowns after the birth of her first born child.
Jane, the main character of the story, is compared to the life behind …show more content…
Throughout the story, it is explaining the breakdowns of Jane, the protagonist which is compared to the author, Gilman. The author is writing this story to tell her background about her life and the things she has gone through dealing with Postpartum Depression. The words form the article states that, Gilman’s purpose of writing these short stories were to allow her to express her ideas on women’s issues and on social reform (“Charlotte”).” Harvard states that Gilman has written this story to show her own experience of a deteriorating marriage and her resulting mental breakdown” (“From Woman To Human”). As you can see, author Charlotte Gilman and Jane are the same exact …show more content…
The rest cure was focused on Jane, the main character of the story, and was supposed to make her illness go away or make it better. As the story goes on, the reader can just notice how Jane is getting worse and worse after she is diagnosed to the rest cure by her doctor. Jane explains how the cure is not helping her one bit and how her mental breakdowns are getting out of hand (Gilman). Jane wants to completely stop the cure because it is useless and there is no need to keep going through things when the breakdowns just keep getting more awful the minute of her life. The story explains how the cure is a point in the reason why Jane is having these mental breakdowns and