Joni Mitchell

In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” author Charlotte Perkins Gilman portrays the protagonist as an “ill” woman. I think that the narrator is “ill” because her husband basically kept her trapped in a room with yellow wallpaper and would not let her out and be who she wanted to be. The conflict in the story is that the narrator was living in a time when women were only expected to fulfill there “wifely duties” and nothing more. The narrator is constantly being put down by her husband, John,…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an important feminist writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1892, Gilman published “Yellow Wallpaper” in the New England Magazine. It was written to address and acknowledge societal treatment of women’s mental and physical health. During the time of publication, the “domestic ideology” placed women in a position of spiritual and moral leadership that gave them control over household duties such as cooking, cleaning, and caring for the children, while…

Being written in 1892, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is almost always spoken of as a feminist short story. With the fact that, the main character of the text raves that her role in society is limited, and her ability to express herself through writing is compressed. Using these facts, a reader might reckon Gilman is making a feminist assertion. This paper will discuss the importance of home in Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, and what it says about the U.S during the 1800’s. The anonymous…

“The Yellow Wallpaper,” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story showing how one woman’s life is drastically changed after childbirth. C.P. Gilman writes about the woman’s internal, as well as external, hardships as a woman of the Victorian era with postpartum depression. In the story’s set era, when psychology was a relatively new concept, the narrator’s family is unsure of how to deal with her newly acquired “condition” (C. P. Gilman 1). Their ignorance and lack of knowledge…

Oppression of Women in The Yellow Wallpaper Throughout time, women have been treated as less than men, and authors like Charlotte Perkins Gilman have revealed the unequal power in her writings, such as in works like Women and Economics and The Yellow Wallpaper. Her most well-known story, The Yellow Wallpaper, follows the story of a woman who is undergoing treatment for postpartum depression. The narrator, the woman, was prescribed a rest cure, a treatment in which the patient can only rest and…

proper sphere” (Stiles). Mitchell believed that when a woman was above the intellectual standard that had been set by the era, that their overall health was worse off, especially their ability to reproduce. “She is physiologically other than man” Mitchell wrote talking about why he did not encourage females to do anything , especially nothing that might allow them to be looked at as equal to men. Gilman did not approve of this ideology at all, and even sent Mitchell a copy of “The Yellow…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson is a gothic short story about a woman, whom’s name isn't revealed in the story, who is suffering from depression, possibly postpartum depression, and how and why the illness spirals out of control throughout the story. The narrator's “madness” is solely focused on getting,what she sees as a trapped woman out of the pattern, bars, of the “wallpaper.” First, the narrator speaks of her setting then introduces her sickness and a conflict between…

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…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” A brief explanation of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a unnamed woman who is also the narrator of the story and, is 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…