John N. Mitchell

In the nineteenth century, males controlled, made decisions for, and overpowered women. John, the main character’s husband, demostrates this in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” John is a controlling, overpowering husband who makes all the decisions for his wife, even if she disagrees with him. She listens to him but speaks her mind in her journal, which is kept a secret from everyone but herself. Charlotte Perkins Gilman uses symbolism and a feminist perspective to show male domination in…

Case Study 1: The Case of the Woman Who Dreams of Stress 1. Arlene is worried that her recent dream experiences indicate that something is wrong with her. If you were Arlene’s friend and wanted to reassure her, how would you help her to understand the normal experience of sleep and dreams? As a friend, I would reassure Arlene that everyone has bad dreams, and many times dreams are a reflection of stressors, or positive encounters that one is having in everyday life. In Arlene’s case she is…

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and it is about a woman who is dealing with depression and with help of her husband and a faulty medical treatment shows her decent into madness. This story shows many aspects of Gilman’s life but this does not mean it is in anyway an autobiography. Gilman is able to show some of the experiences she has had in her life and has put it into a fictional story. The Yellow Wallpaper has themes of subordination of women in…

When someone tells you a story you are expecting to hear what actually happens. That is not always the case. We have certain characters from stories whom we encounter that they way the story is told is so believable, even though is not true. But there is always the case when story is told unbelievably, and we end up believing the facts that are presented to us, as readers. Two stories that come in mind about main characters or narrators whose stories are told in different aspects – believable…

Stereotypes are generalized ideas that are used to define us in society. In the story they are used to make feel character's superior and/or lesser of one another. When Curley’s wife comes into Crooks bunk in the harness room, she uses his cognitive disability as a way to make her feel superior than him by making an insinuation by referring him as a “dum-dum” due to his mental illness. “An’ what am I doin’? Standin’ here talkin’ to a bunch of bindle stiffs―a nigger an dum-dum and lousy ol’ sheep…

her time period. There are many details in the story that show that the narrator/wife is the lowest segment in the society of that time period, and they knew it too. In the beginning of the story, she points out the imbalance in her marriage: “John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage” (216). The…

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews are both novels focused on young girls going though traumatic situations. Matilda from Mister Pip is a young girl living on an island plaugued by a civil war. Matilda is a smart young woman whose imagination was stunted due to the conflict that surrounded her. These conflicts began a short list of trauma-induced mental illnesses which stunted her mental growth and changed her identity. Nomi from Miriam Toews book A Complicated…

The “yellow wallpaper” by charlotte Gilman and “ the metamorphosis “ by franz kafka has a comparison of the two narrators that are confused, and trapped by horrible conditions. “The yellow wall paper” is about a wife who suffers from a nervous disorder.“ the metamorphosis” is about a guy named gregor who has transformed into a bug. Both short stories express the narrator feeling left from our society and trapped without any help. “The yellow wallpaper” by charlotte Gilman the…

The narrator uses imagery in this passage when describing the room and the yellow wallpaper. When describing the yellow wallpaper the narrator describes it as, “ the color is repellent, almost revolting; a smoldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the unclean yellow strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”(Stetson 649) She relates the wallpaper to a school, this helps the reader have a better connection to the image she is analyzing. “ The paint and paper look as if a boys school had…

William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” are two well known short stories of the 1800’s that incorporate qualities of similarities and differences. These two short stories are full of tradition, and the oppression over women’s rights while also focusing on how and why a woman changed from loneliness to madness. Solitude is forced upon both women due to the era and the men in their lives. Emily’s father stops her from finding partners while,…