The Yellow Wallpaper And A Streetcar Named Desire Analysis

Literature is important because it helps people understand the history and culture of the society. It is beneficial in developing critical thinking and understand the meaning why authors wrote what their work either poetry or stories. It also allows the people to discuss different interpretation and create sympathy for the people and society of the time period. The two famous pieces from the Norton anthology of American literature are The Yellow Wallpaper and A Streetcar Named Desire, these both writings create anger toward men and sympathy toward women and emphasized on the gender roles in two different time periods. For decades’ men were dominant in every aspect of life, neglecting women needs and desires they did whatever was suitable for them. Men’s job was to provide the bread for the family and women’s job was staying home, …show more content…
Mitchell. is about a woman who goes into depression and her husband takes her to the doctor whose name is Dr. Weir Mitchell. Gilman uses her personal experience in this story, Mitchell was her real doctor and the rest cure was what he suggests to Gilman for her depression treatment. She wrote the yellow wallpaper to write about her experience. the doctor “rest cure” which worsen her condition and she have locked herself in the room. She starts hallucinating and sees herself in the wall especially during when her husband is not home. Later she realizes that there are other women who are in the same situation as her and decides to write the yellow wallpaper to save other. On the other hand, her husband takes advantage of her treatment and use his authoritative he doesn’t pay attention or try to understand what she actually is going through. In the end, she decides to go against treatment after the yellow wallpaper the physician actually changes his treatment