Wallpaper

wife, was something that Smith knew she did not want for herself. She wanted to make more of her life and follow what she was passionate about, writing. She would write in a journal much as Perkins Gilman had done in her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. Her reaction to these social norms wasn’t as harsh as Charlotte’s but they were dealt with by the same solution. She thought that her mom cooking dinner and waiting for her father was just love. She wrote, “Our perfect dinner was ready every…

Edgar Allan Poe, “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King are all deemed as unreliable because of the way they express their memories. They all have their own characteristics that categorize them into the group of untrustworthy when it comes to sharing their side of the story. There is a delusional killer, a mentally unstable hallucinator and a forgetful murderer. All of these narrators are…

Love is a difficult matter when it comes to deciding what love actually is. There are many perspectives of love, which then leads to different values and characteristics of love. Generally, it is also diverse in a sense that it can be directed in all sorts of ways including love for selves, love for others, or love for or to something. If not dealt carefully and cautiously, then sometimes love can ultimately make a person to behave obsessively, manipulatively, or self-destructing. However,…

Has there ever been a time that you felt you needed to express yourself? Have you ever been denied the right to do so? Did you feel like you were going insane? In the short story “The Yellow Wall-paper,” Charlotte Perkins Stetson presents a young woman who was denied the right to self expression. The woman is diagnosed by her husband, John, and his brother, who are both physicians. They prescribe her a treatment called “rest cure.” In this treatment the woman does very minimal actions. Plus, she…

discredits this idea by creating thought-provoking female characters that break the mold that society has made for women. In doing so, Gilman makes the notion of women being men’s equals seem attainable. Through her written works, such as “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “If I Were a Man”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman promotes her feminist beliefs,…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper is most commonly placed in either the mystery or thriller genres. However, what if some events of the story were altered to present a comical overtone? When read the first time, The Yellow Wallpaper has such bizarre qualities it is difficult to not focus on the sheer absurdity of the story’s events, which could easily be transformed into outrageous acts of a comedy story. It is well known that The Yellow Wallpaper is a critique of the social…

condition and begins to speak about the house. The symbolism of the house and the wallpaper emerges as it shows the start of the obsession that the narrator feels about being trapped and feeling isolated from the rest of the society. The absence of friends in her life leaves the narrator to deal with the voices that she is hearing in her head. Arguably the voices stem from the voices shape her thoughts. The yellow wallpaper on the wall is significant as the narrator feelings of isolation are…

London’s short story “ To Build a fire” The main character is able to isolate himself from outside influences and is able to deny reality. In the short story “ Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The narrator was also detached from reality but was trapped in a room with only her imagination that was taken over by a yellow wallpaper. In both cases reality was merely a phase in which both characters were not a part…

She believes that she was once part of the wallpaper, a creepy, sulking figure, and now she has broken free. Her husband faints, adopting the characteristics of the feeble, weak woman, and she continues to creep about, stepping over his body to continue doing what she wishes to do. This mental breakdown…

from thinking about her sickness, the narrator turns to the wallpaper in the room, which “pronounces enough to constantly irritate and provoke study”, foreshadowing an obsession with the wallpaper. In the first entry of the narrator’s journal she continues to doubt her husband’s treatment. Being isolated with no one to talk to and nothing to do does not lessen her anxiety, in fact, it only feeds into it. The narrator personifies the wallpaper using a simile comparing the pattern to “a broken…