John N. Mitchell

narrator is a dynamic character because her mental state declines as the story progresses. Her mental breakdown is caused by her being limited to a room and forbidden to express her thoughts through her writing; as well as, her husband and physician, John, who has good intentions, but forbids her to do any work, makes all the decisions for her, and refuses to take her seriously. Throughout the story the narrator has to be secretive when she writes; she is not allowed to do anything to…

off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back! Now why should that man have faint? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!” (Gilman 783, Ln 499). This is an example of woman oppression because John always told her what could and could not do. The narrator describes herself as being one of the woman’s in the wallpaper that were trapped but finally got…

Yellow Wallpaper Research Paper “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a gothic short story, written by Charlotte Gilman, who deals with various breakdowns after the birth of her first born baby. The main character is portrayed as insane and can be seen better through the setting, the life behind her story, the cure she needs to overcome her mental illness, the time period, and all around the depression itself that the main character is going through. This short story is a learning factor in women’s…

The foundations of American society in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were shaken by the revolutionary reality of women’s abilities, with high demand of political and social reform of gender inequalities by forthright women such as Charlotte Perkin Gilman. Expressing these views in her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” acknowledges the power and control of women within patriarchal society, along with the effects on personality due to mental and…

of these influential female writers was author Charlotte Gilman. Her best works is “The Yellow Wallpaper”. This is the story about women who suffers from hysterical behavior. Her treatment before was to be bed ridden until she is better. Her husband John later decides to take their family to a large estate away from everything. He believes this will be the best treatment for his wife. He puts her in an upstairs room with bars on the windows, scratches on the floor, and bright yellow wallpaper.…

even though it is forbidden. Jane writes in her journal “There comes John, and I must put this away,-he hates to have me write a word”(87). Jane tends to think that since John is a doctor and does not want to believe she is sick, she stays sick out of coincidental spite ( Gilman 87). Similarly to Paul not wanting Hester to worry about money, Jane seems to hide the severity of her condition to John. Gilman announces that John does not know the suffrage of Jane’s condition (87). Schumaker…

post-partum depression. During this time if a women claimed to be ill after her child’s birth she was ignored because women were considered nervous beings. Gilman went to a sanatorium in Philadelphia in 1887 where she was treated by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, who is the doctor in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. His rest cure included no physical or intellectual stimulation, which meant she couldn’t write. Gilman and Stetson separated in 1888, which was rare in that time; they finalized their divorce in…

Imagine living in the 19th century as a woman. Today in the 21st century most woman can live an independent life. However, in the 1800s women were not allowed the freedom that they deserved as a human being. They were controlled by the males of the society. Men had the most respective jobs, whereas, females stayed at home taking care of their husband and children. Sometimes these ignorant behavior of the society towards the women had an ill impact in their psychology. Although, most women were…

the wallpaper and seems like she is trying to get out. The woman in the wallpaper is creeping and seems to be stuck in the main pattern, which looks like the bars of a cage. She tells John to leave this place but he silences her, so each time, her disgusted interest in the wallpaper grows. She also mentions that John does not realize how much she actually suffers and that he laughs at her about the…

that she was truly seeing things, and by the end of the story when John and his sister Jennie finally start to believe something is truly long and try figuring out what it is about the Wallpaper that the narrator was so entranced by, it was much too…