Yellow Wallpaper Flaws

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Angelia Lopez Mrs. Spiegel Period: 1 August 22, 2012 The Unhinged Influences That End In Tragedy “You think you have mastered it but it just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back somersault and there you are It slaps you in the face, knocks, you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.” (Gilman. 6) Men as husbands and other male influences have had a dominate effect on the women population. In the nineteen century women were appraised as if nothing more but a chambermaid. The really didn’t have any assumptions or says the men were subjugate. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”, a short novel that involves a woman and her husband moving…show more content…
Both stories deal with gender effecting the decisions and the character’s development because they show men back then had all the power, the showed men making all the decisions, they showed the men and women in their different roles in general life. Now just to recap, we know the information of both stories “The lottery” was the story of the little community that came together for their traditional lottery, they got names of everyone in the community and when everyone was accounted for they started the name drawing. Who ever got the paper with the dot that was marked for death; they died by stones. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” a woman and her husband move into a house for the wife’s sake. She is ill and her husband thinks this is the way to get her better, just not do anything and be away for people for a while. However the woman starts to go a little crazy when she starts to become obsessed with her wallpaper in her bed room. She thinks there are people in it and ends up feeling like the woman in the wallpaper, so insane. The two stories very different but then again very a
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