John Ames Mitchell

Joni Mitchell is best known for her gentle voice and poetic lyrics often accompanied by acoustic guitar or piano. She has had hits like “Big Yellow Taxi” (1970), most of her songs taking a political stance. Mitchell started her career as a small town folk singer in Ontario, though her influences expanded to include genres such as jazz and pop in the mid 70’s, early 80’s. Though, most of her lyrics are introspective, what is most interesting about her music is her exploration of alternate tunings…

“Morning Morgantown” by Joni MItchells Lyrics that explain how a teen views the day? What more could someone want?! Joni Mitchell’s song, “Morning Morgantown” goes further with not only insight on a teenager’s point of view, but also proficiently made a song with a sweet melody and harmony, and musings of Joni’s own days as a teenager. I chose to use “Morning Morgantown” because I appreciate the artist Joni Mitchell, and think that this song is still relatable. Joni Mitchell has never…

Imagine having to stay in a room for a couple months. In addition to that, picture having little to none human contact. The room is locked from the outside and has barred windows. It is extremely bare, except for the bed. The only thing to keep you company is this horrid, yellow wallpaper. Hours feel like days and days feel like weeks, and the only thing there is that yellow wallpaper. You would go crazy! Well, this is what happened to the nameless narrator in The Yellow Wallpaper. The Yellow…

In “the Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator and her husband are on vacation in a secluded edifice. The narrator’s husband, John, is also her doctor and diagnoses her with an illness which he calls ‘temporary nervous depression’, and tells her rest. As they live in the house, the narrator starts to become more and more debilitated and starts saying demented things, indicating…

The Yellow Wallpaper was Charlotte Perkins Gliman 's reaction to the rest cure that psychiatrist Silas Weir Mitchell had prescribed to her when she became depressed after the birth of her first child. Gilman believed that the cure had not only been ineffective, but had caused her depression to worsen. Gilman wrote the story to challenge Dr. Mitchell to alter his treatment of neurasthenia. Charlotte Perkins Gilman used symbolism within the yellow wallpaper to challenge the effects that the…

She did not care what people thought of her and had her sanity. Where as the narrator in “The Yellow Wall-paper” did not have any control of her destiny. She was unable to even control her own thoughts with out her mind being interrupted by the way John wanted her to think and act. She also suffered from the mental illness of depression which I personally believe is a very tough illness to over come especially when you do not have a support system from your loved ones. She had absolutely no…

, and negligence to become well. Through what the narrator desires you can tell of her co-dependent relationship with John and how their relationship is closer to father and daughter than to husband in wife even going as far as John addressing her as a child and even reading her books to fall asleep to. The dialogue between the narrator and John shows her desired wish for John to be there with her and be able to write even though it goes…

Perkins uses the development of the toxic relationship between the narrator and John, her husband, to convey that the treatment of mental illness in women in the late 19th century was ineffective due to the blatant disregard…

John and Jane’s brother, both physicians, were not concern about Jane’s state. She is suffering according to the doctors of a nervous condition. John thinks that his wife needs the fresh air of the country to feel better, to be herself again, “You see, he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? (Gilman 246). Thinking about what is best for his wife, John decides to rent a beautiful colonial house. He decides to stay on the…

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…