After staring at the wallpaper long enough, she finds that the pattern moves because of the woman behind it trying to get out. She describes the woman as “all the time trying to climb out. But nobody could climb through that pattern – it strangles so” (353). This is another reference to how the lives of women are restricting. The barred windows represents the world of possibilities, but the narrator says, “I don't like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women and they creep so fast”(353), because of how the women must “creep” around without being seen or
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is the type of short story that intrigues the reader and isn’t exactly what it seems like at first glance. It is full of hidden meanings and leaves the road open to many different interpretations. But one thing every reader will probably agree on is that the mental health of the narrator of the story seems to be deteriorating towards the end of the short story. The author uses this to show exactly how she is being restricted by her husband and many other men in her life. Times were different back then, and unfortunately women weren’t treated as fairly as men were.
Zoey Crain Comp 1302 Prof. Dodge February 9, 2012 The Yellow Wallpaper The psychological thriller, The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story about a woman with postpartum depression. The narrator’s husband and brother concluded it was a nervous depression. Her husband and she move out to a rather suspicious house, so she can better herself. She isn’t aloud to do any kind of work and is given strict instructions to get air and relax her self.
THE YELLOW WALLPAPER In Charlotte Perkins Gilman “The Yellow wallpaper” the narrator undergoes a nervous breakdown and was kept in a room with the intention of curing her sickness. It was quite obvious that the narrator needed people around her. She needed to go outside to see how much love is in the world but instead her husband, and therapist insisted that the only way to cure her from the sickness was to keep her away from the world, in an empty room pasted with horrible looking yellow wallpaper. Julian Fleenor argues that the method of treatment in which the narrator undergoes is not intended to cure her but to punish her. Overall, the narrator was a victim of cultural construction that, from a 21st century perspective appears to be punishment more so than therapy.
He also tends to go unnoticed, as it said at the beginning. “We’re common and boring, and you walk right on by us...” But it wasn’t all negative because people he met along the way did pity him, which helped him get from point a to point b. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Jane is put on a “rest cure” treatment by her husband after she gets depressed after giving birth. Because she is a woman, she is obviously just making herself nervous and needs to sleep and not strain herself and everything will fix itself. Her husband, John, even goes so far as to say that she should “not give way to fancy in the least” because it would be too tiring for her.
3. Discuss the changing factors (determinants)that may have influenced Tammys choice to stop smoking Factors that helped Tammy quit smoking was the constant guilt of harming her children while pregnant making her realise it was not only ruining her life but her children (later proved by their diseases), the first time round the book she read “The easy qay to stop smoking “which made her realise just how bad smoking was and what it was doing to her life, her constant embarrassment of always smelling and looking bad, missing out on quality time with her loved ones and finally what helped her the most was the Allen Carr class that was organised for heavy smokers. By doing this course she saw and realised exactly how harmful smoking is for not just her but everyone and getting a firsthand view on others opinions as well as letting alot of her chest. 4. Explain how effective the Quit now web site health promotion initiative is.
I have often thought that it would be so much easier to just end it all rather than deal with the sometimes overwhelming anxiety that associates to the abuse. There are days that I have woken up and actually [Cliché: "actual" and "actually" are weak words whose meaning is nothing more than "in point of fact." They are often used as intensifiers but usually can be deleted with no change in meaning ] contemplated taking my own life. I do not, I know what that does to the people left to deal with the loss. Men are known to commit suicide more often than women, (Mironova, Rhodes, Bethell, Tonmyr, Boyle, Wekerle, & Leslie, ) (2011) (p1).
We have one of the worst adolescent suicide rates in the world. On average 294 youths die from suicide in a year. These rates have tripled since 1970. For every completed suicide there are an estimated 30 – 50 attempts. Suicide affects 1 in 13 Canadians.
Most people feel that this is the only release they can receive if they're going through a rough time. This subject needs to be brought on by more people in hopes to grab the needed attention that people need to help them with keeping away from self-destruction. Suicide: "Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain." -Martha Ainsworth. Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death ("Suicide").
In the beginning, you immediately feel the isolation of the room in which our character lives, but you quickly figure she is there for a reason. In her writing in secret and disagreeing with physicians at all cost, you feel sorry for her, but also question if she is of right mind. There are times you are angry with the husband, but you know that is how it was at that time with how he treats her. I would agree most people reading would assume she is crazy and then see the clues that lead to postpartum depression and see the husband as not all bad. You cannot trust that her view of any reality when she seems most lucid is even clear enough for anything when you realize her state of mind.