Kyliegh Dovale
Ms.Kennedy
ENC 1102
10 October 2015
The Yellow Wallpaper In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Gilman portrays her own struggle with nervous depression through the voice of the narrator whose name may or may not be Jane. She relates that depression with the relegation of women in marriage and their roles in the domestic lifestyle of the 19th century. Her initial distaste with the wallpaper develops through the story into to an outright obsession while following her husband and physicians methods to “cure” her illness. The setting begins with the narrator’s description of an old estate her husband acquired for the summer. Calling it a “haunted house” with long paths and broken down greenhouses sets an eerie tone for …show more content…
She craves stimulation and activity that is denied to her by her husband and physician. She is characterized after the author Charlotte Gilman herself who also suffered from depression soon after the birth of her daughter. Portrayed to be subservient to her husband, Gilman uses the narrator to represent her feminist view on women’s inferiority in marriage and motherhood. John depicts the typical husbands who knows best when it comes to his wife and her illness. His practicality and dominance over his wife renders her from any normal functionality and contributes to her deteriorating condition. He “hates to have (her) write a word” and discourages her to have an active …show more content…
The author uses sarcasm as a form of verbal irony when the narrator is writing in her journal. A lot of it is aimed at her husband and her illness. When she asks questions about the house and its obscurity she writes “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” I don’t know who would expect to be laughed at in their marriage but that certainly isn’t normal these days. Later when her illness has become obvious to the reader as progressed farther than just of normal concern she states that she is “glad my case is not serious!” The author also uses dramatic irony when she believes John’s sister, Jennie, has become interested in the mystery of the wallpaper and is trying to solve it herself. This gives the narrator even more incentive to revolve her days around analyzing the pattern to crack it before anyone else can. The reader is able to reason and know that Jennie has been noticing yellow “smooches” on their clothes and was simply realizing that they were coming from the
Ms.Kennedy
ENC 1102
10 October 2015
The Yellow Wallpaper In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Gilman portrays her own struggle with nervous depression through the voice of the narrator whose name may or may not be Jane. She relates that depression with the relegation of women in marriage and their roles in the domestic lifestyle of the 19th century. Her initial distaste with the wallpaper develops through the story into to an outright obsession while following her husband and physicians methods to “cure” her illness. The setting begins with the narrator’s description of an old estate her husband acquired for the summer. Calling it a “haunted house” with long paths and broken down greenhouses sets an eerie tone for …show more content…
She craves stimulation and activity that is denied to her by her husband and physician. She is characterized after the author Charlotte Gilman herself who also suffered from depression soon after the birth of her daughter. Portrayed to be subservient to her husband, Gilman uses the narrator to represent her feminist view on women’s inferiority in marriage and motherhood. John depicts the typical husbands who knows best when it comes to his wife and her illness. His practicality and dominance over his wife renders her from any normal functionality and contributes to her deteriorating condition. He “hates to have (her) write a word” and discourages her to have an active …show more content…
The author uses sarcasm as a form of verbal irony when the narrator is writing in her journal. A lot of it is aimed at her husband and her illness. When she asks questions about the house and its obscurity she writes “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” I don’t know who would expect to be laughed at in their marriage but that certainly isn’t normal these days. Later when her illness has become obvious to the reader as progressed farther than just of normal concern she states that she is “glad my case is not serious!” The author also uses dramatic irony when she believes John’s sister, Jennie, has become interested in the mystery of the wallpaper and is trying to solve it herself. This gives the narrator even more incentive to revolve her days around analyzing the pattern to crack it before anyone else can. The reader is able to reason and know that Jennie has been noticing yellow “smooches” on their clothes and was simply realizing that they were coming from the