Yellow fever

Similarly in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator’s husband John diagnoses the narrator with a mental illness and expects her to remain within her room resting and not doing anything. Through the development of the characters, point of view, and conflict, both of these stories portray women who are affected by the boxes they are placed in. In “Girl” there is only two possible characters: a mother and her daughter. In the dialogue from the mother to her daughter…

entries, her rapid progression into insanity is very visible as she goes from seeing an unpleasant yellow wallpaper to finding that there is a woman trapped inside it. Gilman carefully illustrates the huge impact of Jane’s husband based on the lack of control, patronization and confinement she undertakes at his will. Women had no control over themselves during the 19th century in which The Yellow Wallpaper made its debut. Self-explanatory, Jane had no choice but to abide by what her husband…

“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” (Payne). Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a well-unknown author of The Yellow Wallpaper. She was a social Activist during the time period of the 1800’s to 1900’s. The writer suffered through a difficult childhood and married an actor named Charles Stetson in 1884. After having her first baby she suffered through sever post-partum depression and went through unusual treatments. Later on she…

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman illustrates how women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had no basic rights and experienced severe oppression in many aspects of their lives. Women who lived in this time were treated much differently than they are today. Even when suffering from serious illness, the story’s protagonist, Jane, is not taken seriously. This ultimately leads to her demise. By illustrating the main character’s depression, the author…

Charlotte Gilman published her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” in 1892 in an attempt to draw attention to not only the danger of the Rest Cure but also to shed light on the treatment of women throughout the late nineteenth century. Women during this time were instructed to remain within their traditional gender roles which typically included tending to the home and children. As Rula Quawas explains, women were only believed to be happy if they adhered to qualities that included “piety, purity…

power is explored in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Written in 1892, “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a fictional story that shows a young woman’s rise to power. Although the narrator is not given a name, Gilman shows how this woman gains power by the end of the story. Although the narrator has very little power at the beginning of the story, she achieves ultimate power by the end. Throughout “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the narrator’s husband John conveys his power…

The Yellow Wallpaper had culture as one of its themes; one could see that through the narrator. The narrator seemed to have mental instability due to the fact that she was not allowed to visit certain people, or travel. This was mainly because her husband, who was also a physician, dismissed her mental issues on nerves and hysteria. Later on in the reading the narrator starts to see and imagine things vividly, mostly from not having anything to which occupy herself with. In today’s culture…

All by Herself During the writing of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, she goes to great depths and lengths to describe the young, upper-middle-class woman who is newly married to a physician named John and a mother yet a nameless narrator who has a character of what she describes herself as, “a slight hysterical tendency” (Gilman 64). How would one expect the personality and character of a woman who is sent to a quiet and empty house, by her husband, be? A character analysis…

Throughout the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", Charlotte Perkins Gilman takes the reader on an adventure of how women were treated during the period of the rest cure. Many women during this period have a certain standard they have to live up to. In "The Yellow Wallpaper", the husband realizes that his wife is sick and needs medical attention. He then realizes that the only way she could get better is through the rest cure. The rest cure was developed in the late 1800's and is displayed…

inability to empathize with women’s situations and their ignorance to the women’s values cause female characters from both stories to lose important aspects of their lives and personalities, resulting in a deterioration of their states of mind. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane’s husband John, in a poor attempt to “cure” her, restricts her freedom and puts her on a “scheduled prescription for each hour of the day” and “hardly lets [her] stir without special direction” (Gilman 75). Despite Jane’s…