Reflection In The Yellow Wallpaper, By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I remember when I was in 7th grade my English teacher assigned the class to pick a book to read and then write a summary about it. Like every other kid I was lazy so I choose a book that would be the shortest and easy to summarize. I choose The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. That book ended up making a big effect on me. Even though at the beginning I just wanted to do the assignment. This book helped shape my character. Before reading this book, I was impatient and interrupting when communicating, without me even noticing those things. Those negative traits were brought to my attention upon reading The Yellow Wallpaper. The belittling of Jane’s voice in the book reflects the way I treated people when they communicated with me. …show more content…
One can see that my response is similar to what Jane’s husband told Jane in the book. I gave orders to Johnathon just like John gave orders to Jane. The book not only brought this negative trait of mine to my attention but also made me thing how I should have acted. If I was silent and listened to him correctly I and John would have solved this problem. So the problem was me being impatient and impulsive. To improve his or her listening skills, he or she must be silent and let the person who has a problem do the talking while the other person listen and stay silent. This did not happen instead me and John interrupted the person and gave him orders without hearing them out. That is why the problem really did not solve, but in my and in John’s mind we thought we did a nice job solving the …show more content…
Jane yearns to have company and to even go outside. Then she starts to imagine people walking down the sidewalk by looking from her window which shows the need for her to have fun and relax but her husband again discouraging that. Then Jane stumbles upon a room which she suspects was a nursery. In that room, she sees the wallpaper, but there is some strange figure behind it. While this moment was scary and sparked curiosity in her, she talks to John about going away from this house, but he takes it lightly. The more he neglects her the more her obsession with the wallpaper and about the strange figure grows. She then is convinced that there are women in the wallpaper trying to come out but the women are in a cage as a result she starts to rip the wallpaper and has yellow stains on her finger nails. Rather than being alarmed by this John thinks she is getting better. That night she tears and bites the wallpaper to save the women and has completely lost her mind. When John comes and sees this he