John N. Mitchell

In her story, The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Stetson uses the theme “imprisonment” to show a woman’s slow fall into insanity. The woman in her story had been diagnosed with a “nervous disorder” by her husband and was prescribed isolation and medication. However, her treatment only seems to worsen her condition until it takes her sanity to its breaking point. Their temporary stay at their isolated house seemed like her imprisonment from the beginning; she described her room to have…

When reading The Yellow Wallpaper, one can notice that women’s issues were not taken seriously at all. Additionally, incorporating the lack of seriousness taken for mental health into the equation allowed for the oppression of women to be even more worrying. When writing this eerie short story, Charlotte Perkins Gilman used many different techniques that added layers to to make her messages evident to the readers. The imagery of the room brought to life the oppression weighing down on her and…

suffering from some sort of mental-illness or maybe some sort of Post –Partum Depression, while staying at some sort of lock down unit in an old-style sanitarium; by her doctor husband named John. Our story starts off with our unnamed protagonist tells about her depression but is dismissed by her husband John the stories antagonist and her brother whom is also a medical physician also. “You see he doesn’t believe I am sick! And what can one do?” (Gilman 64) We are look at these writings as…

great power of dream structure to enact self-contradiction.” (Macrides) Feminism plays a big part in The Yellow Wallpaper. Jane is taken to that room by her husband John because he thinks he is going to make here better. One theory of the story is Jane is locked in a child room since she mentions a nursey downstairs. It is said John thinks Jane has a brain like a child and repressive her for writing and doing what she wants. He always thought her mental health was not fully available so he made…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 and was one of a lineage of feminists and woman suffragist. She suffered postpartum depression after her first child was born and was instructed by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell to undergo “rest care,” a treatment in which she would “live a domestic a life as possible,” keep her children with her always, and have only “two hours of intellectual life a day. Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, published in 1892, as an indictment of the rest cure. In the story,…

narration of an mentally distraught woman for three months. She is under the care of her husband John, a physician, and his sister Jennie, who serves as her caretaker. John believes that by cutting off the stimulation of everyday life, including writing and socializing, the basic human interactions, that his wife will be cured. John moves his wife to another house for three months to ensure that Weir Mitchell`s resting cure is being acted out in its full potential. The symbols in the story…

leave the house and is strictly to rest, consequently this leads to insanity and the obsession over the wallpaper proceeds. Additionally, the mistreatment of her husband is a topic that is explained throughout the story, while the narrator explains to John that she is suffering from this “rest cure” and wants to write and freedom from the big empty room, he patronizes her explaining that he is the physician and to trust what he says. Furthermore, she explains to him that she wants to visit…

Her relationship with John begins as her accepting his prescription for her ailment and being grateful for his care. This goes against her own belief that “congenial work, with excitement and change” (304) would be the best. This shows that she is trusting in John and his opinion as a physician. As she becomes worse, her relationship with John degrades and she will get “unreasonably angry” (304) at him occasionally. Her anger coincides…

The Yellow Wallpaper Character Analysis Depression: feelings of severe despondency and dejection. Whenever in a state of serious grief, you expect support, love, and as much attention as needed, but in the case of our narrator (most likely named “Jane”), she did not receive that. Our narrator was practically abused and ignored in a manner of serious depression, and was later led to schizophrenia. If I had to describe her character, I would say she is a very dynamic protagonist, because of…

A literary work can be interpreted in a many different ways, but the author’s personal view of her/his work can provide a deeper insight for the readers. In “ Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper “ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, portray her own perspective which helps to express her argument. In this essay, Gilman portrays the women’s role as a domestic figure in a patriarchal society. Women were expected to follow the societal expectations, where their place was in private domain. The author states…