Feminism in the 1900s Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the short story The Yellow Wallpaper. Gilman wrote this short story to show how feminism was in the 1900s. Women were often controlled by men. Women also didn’t have many of the same rights as men. Women were expected to do and obey certain duties given to them. In this story the woman narrator was forced to stay and do things in this house by her husband. In the story the Yellow Wallpaper the author is trying to prove that women were controlled by men in the 1900s because the narrator’s husband’s dialogue and the way that he treats the narrator. The narrator’s husband, John, makes the narrator stay in this house claiming that it will help her mental state which shows us that men had more control
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The narrator in the story specifically told her husband that she did not like this room because of the yellow wallpaper and the bars over the windows. Because of this John made her stay in this room because it would help her get better. John said that it would help because she would learn not to focus on it and she would start coping with it and it wouldn’t bother her anymore. Throughout the story this method doesn’t work the way that John wanted it to. Instead of getting better her mental state gets worse but her husband doesn’t notice and the narrator doesn’t tell him. While being forced to stay in this room John would also not let anybody visit her beside Jennie and he would not let her leave without his permission. The author writes “Well, the Fourth of July is over! The people are all gone and I am tired out. John thought it might do me good to see a little company, so we just had mother and Nellie and the children down for a week” (Gilman 319). This was one of the only times that the narrator was allowed to see other people besides John and
The narrator in the story specifically told her husband that she did not like this room because of the yellow wallpaper and the bars over the windows. Because of this John made her stay in this room because it would help her get better. John said that it would help because she would learn not to focus on it and she would start coping with it and it wouldn’t bother her anymore. Throughout the story this method doesn’t work the way that John wanted it to. Instead of getting better her mental state gets worse but her husband doesn’t notice and the narrator doesn’t tell him. While being forced to stay in this room John would also not let anybody visit her beside Jennie and he would not let her leave without his permission. The author writes “Well, the Fourth of July is over! The people are all gone and I am tired out. John thought it might do me good to see a little company, so we just had mother and Nellie and the children down for a week” (Gilman 319). This was one of the only times that the narrator was allowed to see other people besides John and