John Ames Mitchell

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” there is a thought after question of whether the husband of a woman is trying to help her, or trying to ruin her. Within the short story, a women, that was kept from the outside world, goes insane while living in a mansion for some time. After reading the story, I believe that the husband was truly trying to help his wife, when he kept her away from the outside world. One way that her husband tried to help her, was by keeping her away from society.…

the wallpaper symbolizes to the narrator, it is important to look at how it affects others who see it as well. On several occasions John and his sister, Jennie, see the wallpaper and seem to act strangely toward it, or at least on some level are affected by it. The Narrator even refers to seeing John looking at the paper, in exasperation she states, “I have watched John when he did not know I was looking, and come into the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him several…

I visited the Museum of Modern Art on October 9th. It was a very rainy day, but the museum was very crowded. I had never been to a museum of this type before; I have never been really interested in “art”. While at the museum I was amazed to see how intricate the works of art were, even though I didn’t always understand what the work was meant to be or meant to explain I admired the work put into them. After walking around confused trying to decide which piece I would like to analyze, I found…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is one of many women that experienced having a mental illness during the Victorian Era, resulting in the harsh treatment of women to cure them. Gilman was in the narrator’s very shoes and wrote this story not for entertainment, but to tell a special message meant for men and the rest of society, being that the harsh mistreatment of women causes adverse effects. Gilman’s purpose of writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to acknowledge…

The husband lectures in other cities, so the narrator is often left without emotional support for days at a time. When John is at home, his conversations are patronizing, and he dismisses her concerns about her condition. Clearly, her role is to comfort him and trust blindly that her own condition is improving. John’s self-absorption does not permit him to see that his…

Charlotte Gilman herself who also suffered from depression soon after the birth of her daughter. Portrayed to be subservient to her husband, Gilman uses the narrator to represent her feminist view on women’s inferiority in marriage and motherhood. John depicts the typical husbands who knows best when it comes to his wife and her illness. His practicality and dominance over his wife renders her from any normal functionality and contributes to her deteriorating condition. He “hates to have (her)…

The narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper is a young married woman who is receiving treatment for postpartum depression. Her husband, who happens to also be her doctor, is treating her condition with the rest cure; a relatively common treatment for mental disorders during the late 1800s. As required by this treatment, she is to refrain from all intellectual and creative tasks, as they will hinder her recovery. Though her husband loves her and is well-meaning in his care, he fails to see that this…

She too, has a husband who believes that she is very sick. Unlike Rochester, her husband, John, is a little more sympathetic towards her. Even though he has locked her in a room with horrid wallpaper and a bed that is nailed to the floor, he still comes to see her and even sleeps in the same room as her when he is home from work. At the beginning…

narrator’s husband, John, continuously keeps tabs on her and controls the majority of her actions. The imbalance of power between John and herself was not uncommon for a nineteenth century marriage. According to the narrator, she and her husband John were “mere ordinary people” (Gilman 379), so their marriage encompassed the typical characteristics of the time period. As the power stayed with the husband during the story, the narrator’s mental health kept declining. She believed John had her…

continues, and she begins to catch on to the feelings he holds towards her. She realizes they do not stem from love instead she’s held like lab rat studied and analyzed without fair treatment. She states, “the fact is I am getting a little afraid of John…. It strikes me occasionally just a scientific hypothesis that perhaps is the paper” (Gillman). At this point she catches on to dehumanization she’s enduring, she no longer thinks he’s doing it out of love, its strictly research. Only…