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The short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” focuses on a woman who is struggling with post traumatic syndrome after recently having a baby. Her doctor, who is also her husband, gives her the diagnosis to stay in bed all day and eventually thinking she will get better. From lying in bed all day she starts studying the yellow wallpaper, thinking she sees something in it. By the end of the story, it has drove her crazy and realizes the woman she sees in the wallpaper is really her and breaks free. The setting where the story is taken place in the nineteenth century in a large, summer home. The narrator is primarily stuck in one of the bedrooms within the house with yellow wallpaper. The story never gives her a name, but that she is a young, upper- class woman, who is recently married and has just had a baby. The narrator tells her story through her secret diary that holds her secrets and her obsession with the wallpaper. John who is her doctor and husband, thinks he knows what is best for her by making her to stay…

During this historical time period post-partum was not taken seriously because doctors did not know enough information about the disease. Gilman describes throughout her story (the main character) a woman was locked in her room; a direct order from her husband/doctor. Being locked in the room was suppose “cure her state of mind.” She describes the room to the reader as giving her an uneasy feeling, in particular the yellow wallpaper. “The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering…

connecting in both stories was the powerful effect of death and the diminishing of the female sex as a whole. While the two main symbols that seemed to link together were Emily’s actual house and the yellow wall paper itself. In each story both characters were desexualized by the male sex and in both cases the town's population. The narrator struggled with mental health disorders in The Yellow Wallpaper only to be cast aside. “If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband assures…

The Yellow Wallpaper The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is a short story and first published in 1892, used author’s had experienced of the postpartum depression to create a powerful fictional narrative which has a profound meaning for women. Gilman wrote this story in the first person, and used dramatic and realistic style to form of a journal showed to the reader how quickly insanity takes hold when a person is taken out of context and completely…

Even though “fiction” are stories that are not real, and many writers try not to have aspects of their life in their stories, you cannot deny that life; the environment one lived in, the orthodoxy that was accepted in the society at their time, one’s own belief, and many more, can influence what and how authors write a story. Gilman’s works are no different. We can see the “echoes” of Gilman’s life and the ideas the society in her time had in her well-known story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”.…

Anecdotes, stories, novels, and other grandeur forms of art often bring out many different emotions and feelings such as happiness, sympathy, pain, and horror. Books such as “ the Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Stetson and “the Dead” by James Joyce lead to create a maudlin environment within the book by discussing mawkish topics such as pain and restraint. In the yellow wallpaper, one of the main themes is constraint, an element that leads to the antagonist to lose sanity, “ "I 've got out at…

As the narrator describes Gatsby’s parties, everything surrounding the party is yellow and gold, “Turkeys bewitched to a dark gold” (Fitzgerald 40), “The orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music” (Fitzgerald40), Gatsby’s car is described as “a brisk yellow bug” (Fitzgerald 39). It is clear that Gatsby is surrounding himself with yellow. Upon examination it is revealed that yellow is a symbol of money. Gatsby surrounds himself with money to impress Daisy, who only truly cares about herself.…

Katy Waggonner Professor Megan Fischer English 1302 23 October 2017 Taking a Second Look at Charlotte Perkin Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper The short story The Yellow Wallpaper was written in a time of women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th century. In this time period, women were deemed to be inferior to the opposite sex; Women were sought to do everything that the man would suggest without refusal. The author of The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, uses various attempts…

Women in literature are often portrayed in a position that are dominated by men in the nineteen-hundreds era which was considered the norm. In the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the protagonist is oppressed by the husband and shows the effect of the oppression of women in society usually through her writing. The symbolism used in the short story also resembles the feminist views and the overall theme of feminism. Gilman uses symbolism to show the restrictions put…

author of “The Yellow Wallpaper”, is one of many women that experienced having a mental illness during the Victorian Era, resulting in the harsh treatment of women to cure them. Gilman was in the narrator’s very shoes and wrote this story not for entertainment, but to tell a special message meant for men and the rest of society, being that the harsh mistreatment of women causes adverse effects. Gilman’s purpose of writing “The Yellow Wallpaper” was to acknowledge that women suffer from being…