“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a perplexing story set in the countryside during the late 19th century, a time when “modern medicine” consisted of often brutal home remedies and doctor’s unproven theories. This was also still a time when women were part of a patriarchal society seen as fragile individuals who were controlled by their emotions and lacked the capacity for complex thought.
You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency- what is one to do? (Gilman 208).
Through this quote at the beginning of the story you witnessed her already submitting to the female role arranged by society during that time. As you read you find the …show more content…
Gilman is able to portray the effects of Resting Care in a way that leaves many unsettled, but achieves her goal of showing the horror it can cause in its most brutal form. A sad case of a doctor and his wife portrayed with eerie detail allows you to get engrossed feeling sympathetic for both the John and his wife. John’s ignorance comes from his finely tuned intelligence of that era’s medical system which was lacking in far too many ways. John lets what he believes to be right blind him and forces his wife to attempt to cope with her disease alone. As Modern Medicine has erupted we find women getting the treatments they need with women sharing stories like Charlotte Perkins Gilman did. The treatment of women has not only gotten better in the medical sense, but also in the homes of these people. Women are now held to a higher value and seen as more of an equal to men than ever. Gilman would now see a world of equality and the righting of wrongs she addressed which fulfills the goals she laid
You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression- a slight hysterical tendency- what is one to do? (Gilman 208).
Through this quote at the beginning of the story you witnessed her already submitting to the female role arranged by society during that time. As you read you find the …show more content…
Gilman is able to portray the effects of Resting Care in a way that leaves many unsettled, but achieves her goal of showing the horror it can cause in its most brutal form. A sad case of a doctor and his wife portrayed with eerie detail allows you to get engrossed feeling sympathetic for both the John and his wife. John’s ignorance comes from his finely tuned intelligence of that era’s medical system which was lacking in far too many ways. John lets what he believes to be right blind him and forces his wife to attempt to cope with her disease alone. As Modern Medicine has erupted we find women getting the treatments they need with women sharing stories like Charlotte Perkins Gilman did. The treatment of women has not only gotten better in the medical sense, but also in the homes of these people. Women are now held to a higher value and seen as more of an equal to men than ever. Gilman would now see a world of equality and the righting of wrongs she addressed which fulfills the goals she laid