Gender roles and relations have everlastingly been a matter of concern in society, due to the fact that women are not permitted as many rights as men. In Charlotte P. Stetson’s, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, there are multifarious degrees of relations between the two genders. Another thing is that there are also some specific kinds of relations that may occur between members of the same sex. The persona in the story is a young married woman named Jennie, who is recovering from an illness while residing in a rented house in the fields away from town. The story serves to exhibit the different kinds of relations between men and women. As such, the present paper will analyze the place of women in both family and society through the example described
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When back home, he is the one to decide on how his wife should manage her sickness and help her in the process of recovery. This leads Jennie to believe that John is hampering her recovery as she says, “John is a physician...perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster...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 really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression.” (Stetson 1). Besides, the husband is brought out as the person who offers direction and counsel on the matters that face people at home. As for Jennie, she is seen as the person who takes in most of the orders issued by the man as a way of making sure that things are okay in the house. Every part of her life is managed by her husband as she says, “I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day” (Stetson 2). Not to mention, she is basically told when and where to move, “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (Stetson). Thus, one can identify these roles by the narrator’s position on what Jennie and her husband did for her. In Jennie’s opinion, the roles of the women cover mainly domestic chores and all other activities connected to helping a man when he gets back
When back home, he is the one to decide on how his wife should manage her sickness and help her in the process of recovery. This leads Jennie to believe that John is hampering her recovery as she says, “John is a physician...perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster...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 really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression.” (Stetson 1). Besides, the husband is brought out as the person who offers direction and counsel on the matters that face people at home. As for Jennie, she is seen as the person who takes in most of the orders issued by the man as a way of making sure that things are okay in the house. Every part of her life is managed by her husband as she says, “I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day” (Stetson 2). Not to mention, she is basically told when and where to move, “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction” (Stetson). Thus, one can identify these roles by the narrator’s position on what Jennie and her husband did for her. In Jennie’s opinion, the roles of the women cover mainly domestic chores and all other activities connected to helping a man when he gets back