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Compare And Contrast The Yellow Wallpaper And A Sorrowful Woman

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Differences can be made whether you have nobody or someone who is there for you and trying to help you through the pain and suffering. "The Yellow Wallpaper" was first published in 1892 and written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Another similar but different story, "A Sorrowful Woman," was written by Gail Godwin and published in 1971. Although "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "A Sorrowful Woman" have similar thoughts, they are extremely different due to how loneliness and companionship can have different effects on a person. Character development is a key part of "The Yellow Wallpaper," because the woman’s personality and sanity drastically changes as the story progresses. "I get unreasonably angry with John sometimes. I'm sure I never used to be so …show more content…

First, the husband and boy came together, "They knocked on her door, a big knock and a little, and she would call, ‘Come in.’" (Godwin 3). Then she says, "‘I don't think I can see him anymore,’ she whispered sadly to the man" (Godwin 4). Eventually, she doesn’t even want to see the husband anymore, "‘I'm afraid it's come to that,’ she said. ‘Just push the notes under the door; I'll read them. And don't forget to leave the draught outside’ (Godwin 4). This shows her character development in the story because, as she continues on, she just doesn’t want to see anyone and just wants to be …show more content…

"It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls" (Gilman 648). The first description of the room helps us get a feel of how big and barren the room would be to be forced to live there on your own. "No wonder the children hated it! I should hate it myself if I had to live inthis room long" (Gilman 649). She writes this when she is talking about the yellow wallpaper. Yellow wallpaper has been shown to cause kids to cry more than other colors, which is why it was interesting when she said, "No wonder the children hated

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