Yellow River

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…

ovarian cancer and is undergoing intensive treatment. Her participation in experimental chemotherapy prompts her to reevaluate her life as it is. As a result of this, her history of being an unemotional professor begins to fade. Similarly, in “The Yellow Wallpaper”, Charlotte Perkins Gilman tells a story about the protagonist and her husband John, who are spending the summer away as a treatment for her mental illness. Loneliness strikes and the protagonist finds herself becoming obsessed with…

Kate Chopin’s turn of the century novel, The Awakening, emphasizes the subtle yet significant change in the South as women began to challenge the conventional views on their role in society and in the household. In order to mark this change, Chopin presents her readers with the story of Edna Pontellier and her journey to try and ABANDON her life as an obedient mother and wife IN EXCHANGE for a new life full of personal freedom and authority over herself. When readers first meet Edna, she is on…

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 to display the normalization of…