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While today the genders are relatively equivalent, this was not always true. In the story "The Yellow Wall- Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the narrator witnesses the different gender roles while she is in the "summer home" for her "temporary nervous depression". The author uses symbolism throughout the story to show gender roles, as the significant characters represent the typical males and females in the current society of the story. Making decisions is something everyone does, and…

Feminist Approach in The Story of an Hour In The story of an hour, Louise Mallard experienced a sense of freedom after she was told that her husband died in a train accident. At the beginning of the story, miss Mallard suffers from grief and sorrow because she has lost her husband, which reflects a woman`s emotion, and that’s normal in the lady's case. With her fizzy emotions and weak heart as maintained in the story, from here begins the suffering and show sympathy with miss Mallard's…

The necklace is a short story written by Maupassant to present the mentality of people in France during its golden ages. He did that through the use of more familiar characters to the reader who have positives and negatives, following the guidelines of literary realism to give the reader a closer perspective to the life during those days. It is based on a middle class woman who married to a junior clerk in the Ministry of Education. She had an honorable life but always felt that ‘’she was…

Arian Rivera Ms. Paterson Honors 10 Literature 20 February, 2017 Oppression in The Yellow Wallpaper The story The Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1892 depicts a young woman suffering through both oppression and depression. Seen as “a man’s property” during the 19th century. Families could be classified as patriarchal with the me being the breadwinner and the women staying back to tend to normal house duties. Women during this time would suffer through oppressive states…

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” published in 1892, author Charlotte Perkins Gilman writes about a young woman named Jane who is suppressed by her husband and suffers from depression. To begin, Gilman introduces Jane, a newly married woman who recently moved in to a new house with her physician of a husband, John. Next Gilman, displays how she is a struggling woman who suffers from “nervous weakness” (473) as misdiagnosed by her husband. Jane was continuously hoovered over and…

The rental heart by Kirsty Logan is about a person who is dating a lot of people and gets heartbroken every time they part ways so the main character goes to the heart rental place and rents a new heart to mend their broken heart. Throughout the story we hear about seven different partners, both men and women. The main character is currently dating Grace but looks back to past relationships. We are not told if the main character is male or female, so my interpretation is they could be gender…

Everyday there are people falling in love or going through breakups, after enough trust has been given and received it is common to marry; yet there are no words to describe how one might feel after their trust is broken. The narration in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, revolves around the unknown, complex situation of why Grandma’s husband left her, AND WHAT HER LIFE HAS BEEN SINCE THEN. When Oskar’s grandmother is betrayed by her husband, Thomas Schell, it…

Women’s roles in the workforce were extremely limited during the 19th century and it failed to allow promotions amongst women for their work. An underlying theme of the inequalities throughout the workforce is apparent in Stephen Crane’s novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, is the foundation of realistic literature written during the late 19th century which features several progressive undertones for broader topics such as nature versus nurture, women’s roles, and…

The Two Women in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour Mrs. Mallard and Calixta are two by and large extraordinary women made by an outstandingly bewildering maker. Mrs. Mallard is too much sensationalized at the news of her terminated life partner and Calixta, to separate, is an ill-advised housewife persevering through a whirlwind. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" Mrs. Mallard is first observed as a mate who may by no means whatsoever, have the ability to comprehend the…

In the city of Verona, among the families of the Capulets and Montagues, a tragic story happened. It started from a young lady and a gentlemen’s curiosity about love, and many people died during the week. Young Juliet and Romeo also died at the end. Someone must be the blamed for this sad result as both families are demanding to punish the guilty party. The one will be chosen that has more guilt compared to others. Romeo, from the Montague, is the offender for the whole disaster that happened in…