After examining both stories the amount symbolism embedded within the text was astounding. Each story has unique aspects that intertwine with each other while in the same sense each has their own twists and turns spiraling away from the similarities. Two main themes that I found to be extremely gruesome but connecting in both stories was the powerful effect of death and the diminishing of the female sex as a whole. While the two main symbols that seemed to link together were Emily’s actual house and the yellow wall paper itself.
In each story both characters were desexualized by the male sex and in both cases the town's population. The narrator struggled with mental health disorders in The Yellow Wallpaper only to be cast aside. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter but temporary nervous depression--a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do?” (pg!!!!) She was being suffocated in her own home; the townspeople wrote the sickness off as nothing serious simply because two male figures of high standards stated the disorder was mild. She became a prisoner within, each passing day the suspense began to compile. The “yellow wallpaper” began to haunt her, she …show more content…
Emily was cast away and declared a misfit in the society’s ring all because she was quiet and a “odd” specimen. If she would have received counseling or any type of help possibly she could have lived out a normal life, but instead she was left alone for almost all of her life, never having interactions with anyone other than the butler. The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is silenced by her inability to perform the tasks of a dutiful housewife simply because her husband is facing challenges with his mental health; I can only imagine the whispers being spread by all the towns
In each story both characters were desexualized by the male sex and in both cases the town's population. The narrator struggled with mental health disorders in The Yellow Wallpaper only to be cast aside. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter but temporary nervous depression--a slight hysterical tendency--what is one to do?” (pg!!!!) She was being suffocated in her own home; the townspeople wrote the sickness off as nothing serious simply because two male figures of high standards stated the disorder was mild. She became a prisoner within, each passing day the suspense began to compile. The “yellow wallpaper” began to haunt her, she …show more content…
Emily was cast away and declared a misfit in the society’s ring all because she was quiet and a “odd” specimen. If she would have received counseling or any type of help possibly she could have lived out a normal life, but instead she was left alone for almost all of her life, never having interactions with anyone other than the butler. The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is silenced by her inability to perform the tasks of a dutiful housewife simply because her husband is facing challenges with his mental health; I can only imagine the whispers being spread by all the towns