Exercise 2.2
Ana Yanez Charlotte Gilman in her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” describes the life of a marriage between a wife - the first person narrator of the story, and her husband and doctor, John, in a conventional nineteen-century society. The narrator is a woman who has been physiologically ill by her lifestyle as a wife and domestic worker; constantly playing passive role instead of a more active one that her man took. She is considered to be in a state of “temporary nervous depression” (1-116), and is deprived by her husband to do any kind of activity (not even using her imagination), other than resting and sleeping. She is a frustrated and depressed woman who feels imprisoned in her own house. Apparently, in the story, it appears …show more content…
The author uses repetition of words to emphasize the state of something: “I moved it slowly- very, very slowly” (13), “I undid the lantern cautiously – oh, so cautiously – cautiously” (14), “ I resolved to open a little – very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it – you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily”(15). These repetitions help create the tone of a rushed-heart beating story in which the narrator is very agitated and anxious and discusses little things in detail. In the story the author created a lot of climaxes and spikes of tension by adding exclamations to the sentence structures, for example: “They heard” – they suspected! – they knew! –they were making a mockery of my horror!”, “I felt I must scream or die! – And now –again! – Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder! –“(17). The author writes the story using all of the punctuation marks like dashes, exclamation marks, and also italic words to create and to make the story be felt alive as if it was being portrayed in a theater. The author also adds a sense of musicality to the way he writes some of his sentences, for example: “Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me.”(13) Poe also adds a lot of imagery to the story by explicitly detailing and describing every move, every place, every soun, sight, feeling and ambience in the story “I saw it with
Ana Yanez Charlotte Gilman in her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” describes the life of a marriage between a wife - the first person narrator of the story, and her husband and doctor, John, in a conventional nineteen-century society. The narrator is a woman who has been physiologically ill by her lifestyle as a wife and domestic worker; constantly playing passive role instead of a more active one that her man took. She is considered to be in a state of “temporary nervous depression” (1-116), and is deprived by her husband to do any kind of activity (not even using her imagination), other than resting and sleeping. She is a frustrated and depressed woman who feels imprisoned in her own house. Apparently, in the story, it appears …show more content…
The author uses repetition of words to emphasize the state of something: “I moved it slowly- very, very slowly” (13), “I undid the lantern cautiously – oh, so cautiously – cautiously” (14), “ I resolved to open a little – very, very little crevice in the lantern. So I opened it – you cannot imagine how stealthily, stealthily”(15). These repetitions help create the tone of a rushed-heart beating story in which the narrator is very agitated and anxious and discusses little things in detail. In the story the author created a lot of climaxes and spikes of tension by adding exclamations to the sentence structures, for example: “They heard” – they suspected! – they knew! –they were making a mockery of my horror!”, “I felt I must scream or die! – And now –again! – Hark! Louder! Louder! Louder! Louder! –“(17). The author writes the story using all of the punctuation marks like dashes, exclamation marks, and also italic words to create and to make the story be felt alive as if it was being portrayed in a theater. The author also adds a sense of musicality to the way he writes some of his sentences, for example: “Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me.”(13) Poe also adds a lot of imagery to the story by explicitly detailing and describing every move, every place, every soun, sight, feeling and ambience in the story “I saw it with