Ever since humans first roamed the earth, gender roles were present. Hunters and gathers in the earliest times were primarily men, and the stay-at-home women cleaned, cooked, and cared for their children. The men spent the day out in the wilderness hunting animals and bringing them back to his family in time for supper, then women prepared the meal and served it to her children and husband. Still during this time period, if not later, women didn’t have as much freedom as men do. Whether it’s voting rights, or marriage rights; Men have more self-rule than females. Even though the rights of both male and females have equaled out in the present time, there are still certain roles that both genders have to fill in society. Women are expected to
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While she is staying in the mansion, it is required from her husband “John” that she stays in one bedroom. In this bedroom where she spends a tremendous amount of time in are barred windows, a bed bolted to the ground, and the yellow wallpaper−as mentioned in the title. While being isolated in this room with no freedom, she begins to have vivid thoughts and ideas because what she does all day is stare at the yellow wallpaper. The narrator said “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.”, while being absolutely freedom-less, she is becoming more ill than she already was because she now is beginning to see the woman, or women behind the wallpaper (Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper pg. 11). The girl that she is imagining in the wallpaper is actually herself because describing the woman behind, the narrator says, “And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern−it strangles so… ” The woman that she sees symbolizes herself since they both are feeling trapped in something that they cannot escape, because during this time women were not able to leave a marriage whenever they desired, only the husband could make that decision (Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper pg.11). Coming from the yellow wallpaper is a peculiar odor that she cannot pinpoint. It’s not terrible; but a quite subtlest odor. The smell that is lurking the dining-room, parlor, hall, and her room is driving her so insane that she says, “I thought seriously of burning the house−to reach the smell.”(Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper pg.10) What sane individual would say that, burn down a house just because of the smell that derives from it? None, she is becoming so ill and paranoid
While she is staying in the mansion, it is required from her husband “John” that she stays in one bedroom. In this bedroom where she spends a tremendous amount of time in are barred windows, a bed bolted to the ground, and the yellow wallpaper−as mentioned in the title. While being isolated in this room with no freedom, she begins to have vivid thoughts and ideas because what she does all day is stare at the yellow wallpaper. The narrator said “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over.”, while being absolutely freedom-less, she is becoming more ill than she already was because she now is beginning to see the woman, or women behind the wallpaper (Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper pg. 11). The girl that she is imagining in the wallpaper is actually herself because describing the woman behind, the narrator says, “And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern−it strangles so… ” The woman that she sees symbolizes herself since they both are feeling trapped in something that they cannot escape, because during this time women were not able to leave a marriage whenever they desired, only the husband could make that decision (Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper pg.11). Coming from the yellow wallpaper is a peculiar odor that she cannot pinpoint. It’s not terrible; but a quite subtlest odor. The smell that is lurking the dining-room, parlor, hall, and her room is driving her so insane that she says, “I thought seriously of burning the house−to reach the smell.”(Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper pg.10) What sane individual would say that, burn down a house just because of the smell that derives from it? None, she is becoming so ill and paranoid