The complexity of a short story is shown in the description of the theme. In the two short stories, The Tell Tale Heart and the Yellow Wallpaper, the themes of dementia and revenge are evident. Dementia is more than the loss of memory, it is a disease that takes over a persons actions and personality in general. In a tell tale heart dementia was easily described in a shorter story. In a novel the condition of the character in the story would have to be less specific.
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. The women becomes obsessed with the wallpaper and even notices a smell from it. "I find it hovering in the dining-room, skulking
She eventually becomes so absorbed by the wallpaper that she sees a woman trapped inside of it and then tries to free her by peeling off the wallpaper. Once she peels off the wallpaper to free the women her husband returns and faints at the sight of her circling the room which she continues to do despite having to crawl over his slumped body. Context can be described as "The part of a text or statement that surrounds a Page 2 particular word or passage and determines its meaning." Which in this case is extremely important for
Unless you have experienced it yourself you cannot understand it. Updike and his poetry, and Rhys with her short story they describe death and impermanence in their own ways. When Rhys describes life after death in I Used to Live Here Once and Updike describes not everything is permanent like in Dog’s Death by John Updike I see that both are talking about forms of death. While they both talk about it, one tells what it would be like after you die and the other describes the pain, and sadness leading to it. Through out the short story and poem I realized that the authors used tone, and symbolism in their literary work as described in our textbooks.
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It represents imprisonment and this is made clear when the she says, “The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out”. (245) The imprisonment is created from the yellow wallpaper because the Jane repeatedly asks to remove it but isn’t allowed and she is confined to the room she despises due to the stubbornness seen from her husband. You can see Jane slowly descend into her madness with her hallucinations- “The only thing I can think of that it is like is the color of the paper! A yellow smell." (248) “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars!
Women of the time were forced into settings they loathed, which is where the narrator finds herself day after day. Gilman uses the old room and its surroundings as a symbol for her helplessness and sorrow; the suffer feels run down, much life the old mansion. Ironically, all those around the narrator keep throwing her into the room and it only makes her worse; eventually making her want to jump out the barred windows. Much has changed in the treatment of depressed women, “Yellow Wall paper” serve as good documentation of past
“A Cream Cracker Under the Settee” is set in the semi-detached home of a frail, old lady called Doris. Doris has a cleaner from the council who threatens to put her in nursing home, if she continues to clean her house. Doris is very concerned about this happening to her, even though she is at the moment situated on the floor of her home, unable to get up. “The Laying on of Hands” is set at a memorial service, which is being held for a masseur, who was also a male prostitute to the rich and famous. No-one knew as to the real reason for Clive Dunlop’s death, but everyone had surmised that it was because of AIDS.
Firstly, a short story should focus on central characteristics, which tend to reveal themselves through one key event or moment that typically lays bare their essential nature. Compare to “royal beatings”, “The yellow wallpaper” clearly focuses on a single character and several secondary characters are to shed light on the central character. The story of a women’s descent into extremely madness and has been locked in a nursery of a rental isolated estate by her husband who is high standing physician and believes she isn’t sick but temporary nervous depression and request caring. The societal pressure and postpartum depression placed on her and started to imagery of the patterns in the yellow wallpaper and wrote them down.
The effect is Harris’s death, she realizes, but what is the cause? Her journal also becomes her second confidant the one she can confide in when she needs an ear to listen, but not a mouth to comment. “Until the night that Harris died, I loved the sound of rain...Now I hate it. It makes me think of someone crying” (44). It is the result of writing in her journal that prompts the answer to Terri’s question.