Yellow Wallpaper Reflection

Occasionally mental illness is depicted as a joke in movies, which is something I dislike because it is very serious for some people. Other times they depict it as something that needs more awareness and that people often have the wrong idea of mental illness. This is something I support because it is something that doesn’t have near enough attention is prison and many people who are in prison need more mental help than anything.
Her condition worsens as the story goes on, although her husband thinks she is getting better. She begins to come completely obsessed with the yellow wallpaper and is going almost insane over it because she thinks she is a trapped woman and that she cannot escape her situation.
The wallpaper is a symbol in the story because she becomes so obsessed with the wallpaper but she …show more content…
I think S. Weir Mitchell really just wanted the best for his patients. At the time so little was known about the mind and how it worked, psychology was just being developed. And so people thought if they couldn’t see a physical illness, nothing was wrong.
Gilman not addressing directly who the doctor was in this piece I found it to somewhat respectful and Mitchell could have not acknowledged it because he is not directly named. It somewhat changes how I viewed the story since it was a personal story about her own life and struggles she faced. I think knowing more about the author can sometimes help better understand the characters and the story since many times it is a reflection of their own life. The decisions characters make and their personality is more often than not has a meaning in their life.
In a way it does because Mitchell is able to back up is “rest cure” with other cases. He has a reason for having them rest because he has seen it work for other people and assumes it should work for them