The Cruelty Of Women In The Yellow Wallpaper

He keeps her alone in an old beat up nursery when she should be out being productive. He also doesn't let her do anything because he is “protecting her” and helping her recover faster when they both know that is not the case. And he at one point of the story says “What is it, little girl?” and “Don't go walking about like that---you will get cold.” The biggest symbol of oppression in the story is The Yellow Wallpaper.

He considers his wife inferior and weak. Throughout the story he seems to wave away problems that his wife has with the home. For example, she wants to remove the yellow wallpaper from the room and John just laughs at her and tell her that if he does this, she’ll just ask for more. Refusing to give her what she wants and keeping her trapped within the yellow-walled prison of his making. John often attempts to make it where the protagonist cannot even think.

Postpartum depression occurs after birth when the hormones of women are changing which causes many symptoms such as irritability, hot flashes, and sadness. In the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” the narrator suffers from postpartum depression and is put into a mental hospital by her husband only to find out in the end he was not who she thought he was and the place she was living was not what she had

We don’t want no trouble.” Curley’s wife doesn’t have social life at all. In fact, she also facing attitude adversity. She discriminated Crooks by calling him “nigger”. Even if she’s the wife of the Boss’s Son, she’s still facing social adversity because she was longing for attention, companion, and a friend.

Women were thought of as weak and unable, and they did not question a man’s authority. Through the development of this story, it shows how passive women with postpartum depression were treated poorly and it resulted in mentally ill patients rather than healthy ones. The ever changing tone, vivid imagery, and ironic situations all show how the woman comes to understand who she is. The narrator in this story comes to the realization that she is the woman in the wallpaper she has envisioned- trapped in this world by her own husband. To break free of this entrapment, she ripped off all the wallpaper so no one could put her back into her horribly vivid

(83). But when the Gilead was made and she was forced to stay home “She stays in her home, but it does not seem to agree with her.” (84). Serena Joy who was once a star and active speaker fell to the oppression towards female in the time of the Gilead. Her personality changed as well, one would think she is a loyal to her husband but offered Offred to have sex with Nick.

My mother says and sighs. She has lived in this city her whole life. She can speak two languages. She can sing an

Which Jeannette later found out was because her mom refused to sell their land. By making this choice she hurt her kids by making them live with poverty and starvation. Secondly, Jeannette’s mom didn’t believe in many things, including glasses. Jeannette explains, “She didn’t approve of glasses. If you had weak eyes, Mom believed they needed exercise to get strong.

Everything that the wallpaper represents take the story deeper and allow the reader to actually understand the woman’s situation. While reading the story, the reader learns that this story is told through a diary the woman used to vent. After being left alone in that awful room, the woman is very bored and lonely, so she decides to write in it. At the beginning of the story, the woman is prescribed a “cure” for her “problems.”

In this part, Curley’s wife talks to Candy about how his dreams are not going to work out. She says, “I seen too many of you guys... I know you guys” (Steinbeck, pg 79). This proves that Curley’s wife has been at that house for a long time with no one to talk to, and it’s caused her to have a constant need for attention. The only way she knows how to get attention is by messing with people.

In the story “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is struggling with her condition of depression and anxiety. Along with her condition, the narrator is kept away from the rest of society in a room due to her husband. Her husband being a physician tries to handle her condition through a scientific method instead of a moral understanding method, because of this the narrator seems to worsen and develop tremendously until she reaches the point of complete insanity. The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” shares a similar concept to the story “The Things They Carried” in the way that each character has something that they carry with them that represents their beliefs, interests, or even represents them as a person. This concept of carrying a representation

Mental illness is not commonly associated with gender issues and feminism; however, through this course we studied how throughout centuries gender and intersectionality played a crucial role in one’s treatment and diagnosis. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is one of the first texts we examined that correlated with the role of gender in medical treatment and diagnosis. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of a husband controlling his wife’s treatment, and consequently, she is misdiagnosed and never receives proper treatment. Written in 1892, it successfully exemplifies how gender role’s dictated a woman’s treatment because during this time a wife was subordinate to her husband. Although Perkins continuously explained to her

Using Feminist Theory, the reader can understand the message in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” In the story, John’s wife is slowly going mentally insane. John limits her abilities in society, because John does not allow her to work, the ability to write, and forces her to stay in the isolated nursery. For example, John’s wife describes her desire to work to do her good mentally. “Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”