To have an inherently problematic marriage, is for one to become immune to a problem he or she may be facing. In Kay Boyle the “Astronomer’s Wife,” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper,” both shared some similarities in their marriage of feeling lonely, does not have a voice or feel invisible by their patterns. Perhaps society norms on how men and women in a marriage should behave can lead to a lack of equality in a marriage. In the “Astronomer’s Wife,” by Kay Boyle. Mrs. Ames become tired due to the loveless, silence and loses her sense of youthfulness in her marriage. Mrs. Ames describe her husband the Astronomer that he is the mind of the mind, who spend his time wandering the mountains and looking in the sky on the rooftop
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She also complains about her husband John, who is a doctor that thinks that her sickness is cause by her writing and thinking of these crazy fantasies. John feels that since he is a doctor he knows what’s best for her. Her treatment requires that she so nothing active and especially forbidden from working and writing. The narrator illustrated “Personally I disagree and believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good,” (Gilman 76). The narrator believes that she would actually be better if she was writing again or doing some type of activity but because she doesn’t want to stress her Husband John out, so she will do what he wants. This shows that the narrator does not have a voice in her marriage for her husband seems to ignore her thoughts or ideas. Inside the room where she rests, the narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room. Feeling close in, she start to see other women that are trapped behind a bar trying to get out. The narrator reveals, “I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?” (Gilman 88). This symbolizes the lady that is beginning trap behind the wallpaper, reflects the narrator marriage. For she sees her self-trap in a marriage where she is lonely, her ideas are begin shut down by her husband and she feels alone. The only way she can be free is if the lady behind
She also complains about her husband John, who is a doctor that thinks that her sickness is cause by her writing and thinking of these crazy fantasies. John feels that since he is a doctor he knows what’s best for her. Her treatment requires that she so nothing active and especially forbidden from working and writing. The narrator illustrated “Personally I disagree and believe that congenial work, with excitement and change would do me good,” (Gilman 76). The narrator believes that she would actually be better if she was writing again or doing some type of activity but because she doesn’t want to stress her Husband John out, so she will do what he wants. This shows that the narrator does not have a voice in her marriage for her husband seems to ignore her thoughts or ideas. Inside the room where she rests, the narrator becomes obsessed with the yellow wallpaper in her room. Feeling close in, she start to see other women that are trapped behind a bar trying to get out. The narrator reveals, “I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?” (Gilman 88). This symbolizes the lady that is beginning trap behind the wallpaper, reflects the narrator marriage. For she sees her self-trap in a marriage where she is lonely, her ideas are begin shut down by her husband and she feels alone. The only way she can be free is if the lady behind