In the end of the story, the narrator has lost all sense of reality, and John discovers her crawling around on the floor of the nursery, following the pattern of the wallpaper. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” was ultimately going to be driven to insanity because of her controlling husband, her writing being forbidden, and her growing obsession with the inanimate objects. In the end, she finally does away with her supposed obligations as a wife and mother, and her sanity as
In, the authors, Charlotte Gilman and William Faulkner, respectively, have placed both figurative and literal elements of confinement upon the characters. In “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the wife of a reputable doctor is placed within a mansion and is isolated from work and social contact. This was done in hopes of curing her mental illness. Her husband, John, forced her to abide to his treatment even though she believed that the treatment was causing her to become worse than she was before. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily’s lover, Homer, has also confined her to her house but does so in a different way.
Compare and Contrast Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are two short stories that hold many similarities and differences. Both of these stories are based on women who go from being depressed and lonely to insane. As a girl Emily’s father rejected all of her boyfriends causing her to never marry and become the talk of the town. The narrator of Gilman’s story who suffers from depression is forced to stay in her bedroom where she becomes delusional. Both of these stories portray many similarities and differences in the setting, characterization and symbolism, and most of all, how men have isolated these women from the real world driving them insane.
A Rose for Emily The Use of Color In A Rose for Emily, one of William Faulkner’s works, tells a story of Miss Emily in a small town of southern America. She was a daugther of a super strict and controlling father who kept her in solitude until her death. Miss Emily was always thought of as a weird and mysterious person to her neighbors, but the neighbors confirmed their theories of Miss Emily when they found out that she had killed her lover, Homer Barron and slept with his body for forty years in the upstairs of her house. Faulkner uses complex plots and a mixed-up time sequence to approach a despairing and gloomy image of Miss Emily to the reader. However, Faulkner uses colors to represent certain moods and mental conditions of Miss Emily during the story The color black has appeared twice in the whole story, one is in the first description of Emily’s appearance, is when the officials went to her house to discuss the tax issue.
Sixty years later, Sarah’s tragic story intertwines with that of middle aged reporter, Julia. Sarah’s Key follows Julia’s investigation into the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup where Jewish families where arrested and taken to a bicycle stadium and then shipped to Auschwitz. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of hidden secrets, secrets that will change the life of her and many others that link to Sarah Starzynski. During the middle of the night on July 16th, Sarah who refused let the French police harm her little brother Michel, locks him in their hiding place, a secret cabinet in their room. She tells him she would come back for him and is then taken away with her parents in local street cars to an old bicycle stadium.
A repressed women with a desire to be free and happy. The relation between when the woman in the wallpaper and the narrator when the woman is behind bars symbolizes the narrator and how she is trapped in this tiny room with a husband who controls her every word and actions. He undermines her in almost every way. For example the narrator says on page 590 “I am afraid, but i don't care- there is something strange about that house-I can feel it, I even said so to John one moonlight evening, but he said what i felt was a drought, and shut the window.” This shows how john undermines her fears as just a simple shiver from the window being open when she is trying to explain how she doesn't like the place because shes
Catherine, tries to get the two most important men in life, Edgar and Heathcliff, to become friends but when that does not work out, she locks herself in her room for two days. She develops psychological insanity. In Foster’s book, a disease “should have some strong symbolic or metaphorical possibilities” (Foster 217). Catherine, she has a nervous breakdown from her the time she starves herself to the time she dies. Psychological insanity also means “insane” hence insanity and Catherine does not eat and all she ever talks about is death.
Suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her son, “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the story of the narrator’s struggle with this despair through her journal. Taking place in the 19th century, the narrator is much undermined by males in this time period. With her husband john being in charge of her health, she is unable to speak for herself which frustrates her and leads to further troubles. While living in a beautiful summer house the narrator’s husband, John, who is a physician, confines her to a large airy bedroom which he believes will cure her “temporary sickness”. With no one to talk to and forbidden to engage in any activities (including writing in her journal) she is drawn to the yellow wallpaper that covers the walls.
old in the first-person perspective as a series of journal entries, the story details the unreliable narrator's descent into madness. The protagonist's husband, John, believes that it is in the narrator's best interest to go on a rest cure after the birth of their child. She may be suffering from what would now be called postpartum psychosis. The family goes to spend the summer at a colonial mansion that has, in the narrator's words, "something queer about it." She is confined to an upstairs room that she assumes was once a nursery, as the windows are barred, the wallpaper has been torn, and the floor is scratched.
In 1884 she married Charles Walter Stetson, an aspiring artist. After the birth of their daughter Katharine, she was beset by depression, and began treatment with Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell in 1886. His recommendations, 'live as domestic a life as possible' and 'never touch a pen, brush or pencil as long as you live' Gilman later satirized this in her autobiography, and used the discussions in her most renowned short story, 'The Yellow Wallpaper', which first appeared in New England Magazine