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Katie Freudensprung ENG 1123 3 December 2017 Analysis Paper The Yellow Wallpaper In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator is trapped in a battle of post pardon depression, while also being subject to the oppression of being a woman in the 19th century. The narrator is not only struggling to recover from the depression that she gained from the birth of her child, but she feels trapped to do so with all the rules on how she is supposed to feel and supposed to act. While…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman is a short story about a woman who is suffering from postpartum depression. Her husband John, the doctor, is attempting to make her well by moving her to a colonial house for the summer while their house is under repairs. This story takes place in a time when women were confined by their roles in society. In her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman uses narrative technique and symbolism to develop the theme that women are oppressed in their roles…

Call Me Zelda, a novel written by Erika Robuck about a woman named Zelda Fitzgerald. Zelda was committed to a Baltimore psychiatric clinic in the 1930’s, struggling with insanity and madness as she tries to form a separate identity from her husband Scott Fitzgerald, who is a famous author. The narrator, and Zelda’s nurse Anna Howard becomes close to her, even though she knew she shouldn’t professionally. Anna, held down by her own past of her husband being MIA in action, becomes increasingly…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” the word “laugh” appears at various times throughout to chronicle the unnamed narrator’s journey from conformity of marriage to recognizing – and rejecting – the patterns of marriage, and also the departure from sanity to insanity. At the beginning of the story, when the narrator is arguably sane – albeit “nervous” – she observes that her husband John “laughs at [her]” (Gilman 202). At this point, she thinks nothing of his mocking, even…

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…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman had a husband named Charles Stetson and a daughter Katharine. After the birth of her daughter Katharine, Gilman became overwhelmed with depression. Gilman then goes to receive treatment from Dr. Silas Weir who was mention in the book. His technique ultimately fails and causes her depression to deepen. Gilman then divorces her husband and sends her daughter to live with him. This was a relatively big deal because women did not divorce their husbands…

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…

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story about a woman with a mental illness, who cannot heal due to her husband’s lack of belief. In the story, the narrator undergoes three stages: first, she develops a mental illness resulting from the constrictions of a male-dominated society; second, she deteriorates due to a worsening environment; and finally, she reaches a state of insanity. Ironically, it is this final stage that symbolizes her freedom. Gilman’s main purpose of writing The Yellow Wallpaper…