Silas Weir Mitchell

“Taking Care” by Joy Williams creates the world of Preacher Jones. The story begins in medias res, with a scene depicting Jones consoling his wife at the side of her hospital bed as they wait for results from the doctor. While Jones is watching his wife delve into a state of childlike dependence, he is also taking care of both his daughter’s child and dog. Despite all of this, he continues to preach for his church, even in his time of despair. Preacher Jones’ unconditional love,…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman illustrates the ignorance and neglect towards women’s health, physically and mentally, during the 19th century through a short story called “The Yellow Wallpaper”. It describes an account of a woman who was driven to insanity due to the Victorian rest-cure- forced upon her through the credibility of her physician husband. The husband, John, represents a stereotypical spouse with his stance on the relationship and protests to the protagonist any freedom of creativity…

The Harm of Destructive Love Destructive love is caused by females wanting full control over the men. The men know how to lead a relationship especially during the time period these stories were written. The women stayed home and took care of kids and the household. Is Destructive love caused by male of female? Well many females feel they should have equal power to men, but that causes this destructive love to occur. It creates a very unhealthy relationship that ends up in arguments and…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote the story "The Yellow Wallpaper." This short story was published in 1982. Through a journal written by the narrator, the reader learns of the story. "The Yellow Wallpaper" is about a woman who has recently given birth and is on a little break from her home life. Her husband tags along on her 'escape ' for the summer at an ancestral hall while their home is undergoing renovations. This 'escape ' is to help her supposed nerves and anxiety. It is also for the…

“The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are comparable in that both the women in the story are prohibited by their husbands, which cause them to feel an intense taste for their freedom from their unsuccessful marriages. However “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin is about a woman named Louise Mallard, who was very displeased with her marriage and did not know what is the meaning of happiness until the death of her husband 's. According to…

The Yellow Wallpaper What the treatment of women was for marriage and society in 1892. The “yellow wallpaper "by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, her think the wallpaper does not try to express the attempt to escape from the narrator of her husband, since he was not understanding well in her depression. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) this story is told in the first person, focused entirely on the thoughts, feelings and perceptions of the narrator. The struggle between the…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American dignified author of short stories, poetry and nonfiction in which she incorporated her political and social activism for the feminist movement. Her most famous piece entitled The Yellow Wallpaper, written in 1899, was a semi-autobiographical piece in which she confronted her internal battles with severe postpartum depression and psychosis as well as confronted the misogynist system in which she lived (Radcliffe). The Yellow Wallpaper is a story told from…

The Yellow Wall-Paper Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wall-Paper is a quintessential example of how housewives were treated and oppressed in late 1800’s America. The Yellow Wall-Paper is written as a journal narrated by a depressed house wife in the late 19th century. She begins the story with diagnosed depression and a nervous condition from her husband, who is a doctor, as they spend the summer renting out a colonial mansion. This depression takes a turn for the worse when the stories…

A Women's Prison Repression is the string that connects the two stories The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Story Of An Hour, in both stories the main characters are women, and both are in a sense shackled by their spouses, unable to live the lives that they want to live. The women in both stories experience extreme emotion and in both stories the women experience liberation, but are in reality trapped in an illusion that when broken breaks the mind and heart. The Story Of An Hour is a tale of a…

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion contends that magical thinking, the principal motif in her memoir, reinforces that grief is a state of mental illness in which unreasonable, impractical thinking replaces rational and sensible thoughts. Initially, Didion deems grief solely as a greater intensity of typical, everyday sentiments, but later considers grief as an emotional disorder, which becomes one of the central themes. With the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and illnesses…