“The Yellow Wallpaper” “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (the story was taken from the book Literature Craft & Voice written by Delbanco and Cheseuse) and is about a woman suffering from postpartum depression. The story main focus is about the popular treatment for this illness in women back in those days called the ‘rest cure’ which almost ruin the authors mental health. She wanted to write this story to help other women prevent going through this situation. Therefore, I believe “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a common concern for women not an interpretation of Gilman’s life because even though times haven change from 1892 when the story was actually writing, there are still so many issues that women go through everyday
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According to Sarah E. Ludwig the author of “Why ADHD in Females is Often Overlooked” says in the article, “In Childhood, males are more frequently diagnosed with ADHD than females at a rate of three to one. In adulthood, that number decreases to two males per one female, probably because more women are diagnosed later”. This is a clear indicator that there still difference on how males are diagnosed against females. An illness that can affect your way of life is diagnose in males faster than on girls. It might be that the symptoms are different than males but then why not study the symptoms that manifest on …show more content…
We can compare to the main character of the story way of life and her mental deterioration to women nowadays that suffer from a mental illness like ADHD and they are not being diagnosed or misdiagnose while leads to a mistreatment. These women would go through same frustration to feel better but being unable to do so as the main character in “The Yellow Paper” felt so many times. As the main character states, “But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief” (Gilman, p. 224). She is trying so hard to be better by following her husband direction but having zero results of feeling any better which her husband seems not to notice.
The main character of the story also shows her frustration on another quote by saying this to John her husband, “‘Better in body perhaps-’ I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word” (p. 225). In this quote, the author tries to emphasize how other people around us like family can impact and pressure someone with mental illness to get better even the physician which in the story is the same
According to Sarah E. Ludwig the author of “Why ADHD in Females is Often Overlooked” says in the article, “In Childhood, males are more frequently diagnosed with ADHD than females at a rate of three to one. In adulthood, that number decreases to two males per one female, probably because more women are diagnosed later”. This is a clear indicator that there still difference on how males are diagnosed against females. An illness that can affect your way of life is diagnose in males faster than on girls. It might be that the symptoms are different than males but then why not study the symptoms that manifest on …show more content…
We can compare to the main character of the story way of life and her mental deterioration to women nowadays that suffer from a mental illness like ADHD and they are not being diagnosed or misdiagnose while leads to a mistreatment. These women would go through same frustration to feel better but being unable to do so as the main character in “The Yellow Paper” felt so many times. As the main character states, “But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief” (Gilman, p. 224). She is trying so hard to be better by following her husband direction but having zero results of feeling any better which her husband seems not to notice.
The main character of the story also shows her frustration on another quote by saying this to John her husband, “‘Better in body perhaps-’ I began, and stopped short, for he sat up straight and looked at me with such a stern, reproachful look that I could not say another word” (p. 225). In this quote, the author tries to emphasize how other people around us like family can impact and pressure someone with mental illness to get better even the physician which in the story is the same