John Ames Mitchell

dealing with criticism of male domination of women during the nineteenth century. In the story, the narrators husband John, which is also her physician prescribed her with Dr. Mitchell’s treatment and kept her isolated in a room with locks on the doors and bars on the windows. Charlotte reason for writing The Yellow Wallpaper was to inform her previous physician, Dr. Weir Mitchell of his mistake of prescribing her the “rest cure” treatment, how it is related to her personal life and gender…

“Taking Care” by Joy Williams creates the world of Preacher Jones. The story begins in medias res, with a scene depicting Jones consoling his wife at the side of her hospital bed as they wait for results from the doctor. While Jones is watching his wife delve into a state of childlike dependence, he is also taking care of both his daughter’s child and dog. Despite all of this, he continues to preach for his church, even in his time of despair. Preacher Jones’ unconditional love,…

during the 19th century through a short story called “The Yellow Wallpaper”. It describes an account of a woman who was driven to insanity due to the Victorian rest-cure- forced upon her through the credibility of her physician husband. The husband, John, represents a stereotypical spouse with his stance on the relationship and protests to the protagonist any freedom of creativity “for her own good” esque. Through the narrative of the protagonist, Gilman reveals the underlying truth behind the…

The Harm of Destructive Love Destructive love is caused by females wanting full control over the men. The men know how to lead a relationship especially during the time period these stories were written. The women stayed home and took care of kids and the household. Is Destructive love caused by male of female? Well many females feel they should have equal power to men, but that causes this destructive love to occur. It creates a very unhealthy relationship that ends up in arguments and…

vacation home. However, the motive of their extended stay comes into question when the narrator states that, "John is a physician, and perhaps . . . that is one reason I do not get well faster" (419). Her husband does not understand what is going on and does not feel that she is sick. He is under the assumption she just needs some relaxation and rest. Rather than diagnose his wife correctly, John says that the narrator has a "temporary nervous depression with a slight hysterical tendency" (419).…

Her husband John is a physician, who was trying to heal from a nervous disorder, but her husband suggested that the protagonist gets the “rest cure”. The protagonist was isolated from everything for an example her family and friend even the baby she gave birth to.…

complex structure and functioning. The influence of the family plays an important role for this woman throughout history because everyone believed that she had to be isolated from society, in a large mansion that had been acquired, John and her husband's sister. Since John thought that if wife was in a quiet place it would work so that he did not suffer nervous disorders or recover faster. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the importance of the woman as a fundamental part of the family…

the misogynist system in which she lived (Radcliffe). The Yellow Wallpaper is a story told from the perspective of an unnamed woman who is married to a doctor named John who held her captive in an abandoned residence as a means to treat her depression. The story is the collection of the narrator’s entries that she wrote, even though John forbade…

The Yellow Wall-Paper Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper is a quintessential example of how housewives were treated and oppressed in late 1800’s America. The Yellow Wall-Paper is written as a journal narrated by a depressed house wife in the late 19th century. She begins the story with diagnosed depression and a nervous condition from her husband, who is a doctor, as they spend the summer renting out a colonial mansion. This depression takes a turn for the worse when the stories…

A Women's Prison Repression is the string that connects the two stories The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Story Of An Hour, in both stories the main characters are women, and both are in a sense shackled by their spouses, unable to live the lives that they want to live. The women in both stories experience extreme emotion and in both stories the women experience liberation, but are in reality trapped in an illusion that when broken breaks the mind and heart. The Story Of An Hour is a tale of a…