The room is becoming her obsession and her only true passion. Her husband is becoming less of a focus and she is not as uncomfortable with the inside of her prison as before, and longs less and less to leave. Her relationship with the outside world is becoming skewered, but her initial interpretation of the room as a prison with yellow walls remains the same. Her visualization of the women within the wallpaper, is her subconscious recollection of her initial state of mind before her mental deterioration. Her current self, that is removed from her previous, more sane state, is becoming confortable in the room and feels she can do what she wants in it, however her recollection which still hangs with her drives her to feel the need to rip down the yellow wallpaper.
The narrator says "There comes John, and I must put this away,- he hates to have me write a word (79). She says she cries for nothing most of the time but not when "John is here, or anybody else, but when [she] is alone" (82). John's dominance clearly affects the narrator as she immediately stops writing and puts her journal away. Her action of putting the journal away shows that the narrator abides to John's rules and that John's attitude reflects on the narrator's ability to do things as she wants emphasizing on his dominant trait.The statement refering to her cries shows how she can only express herself when she is free of company. The narrator feels she can only cry and be herself when she is absolutely alone
In the mother’s eye’s, in the photograph, you see the pain hardship and distress that she has clearly overcome. Ma Joad is similar in the fact that she herself does not show how much hurting pain and suffering she overcomes because she believes it will break the family’s backbone leaving everyone to fend for themselves. Both women are inspirational figures in life. They both go on to show that no matter what the situation is with hope anything is
Though showing to much emotion is almost always looked down upon not being able to express any emotion can have serous negative effects on ones wellbeing. Like in the story The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator is forced to stay at her husbands summer home and spend time alone in attempt help cure her form her state of depression. While there she is not aloud to write or do any actives this slowly starts to have a negative effect on her mental health. She becomes obsessed with the idea that someone is behind the yellow wallpaper that is in her jail she calls her room. This continues after multiple attempts to tell her husband that she is uncomfortable with the yellow wallpaper.
Authentic friendships are not one sided, at times one person may be in need of support more than another but there is always a sense of love, care and consideration that must be mutual. Ann comes across as saintly and forgiving, she professes deep love toward Lucy. The type of love she has for Lucy comes across as unconditional and it is not returned, yes Lucy tells Ann she loves her and needs her but it is obvious from Ann's point of view Lucy uses her. I think Ann was just as dysfunctional as Lucy, she had very low self esteem and always was comparing
In comparing both “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” you find both stories contain a woman repressed by her circumstances. From an emotional standpoint, you could say they are the same, but in reality their situations couldn’t be more different. In “A Rose for Emily, Emily Grierson leads a life of conformity, loneliness, and desperation; while in “Hill like White Elephants,” “Jig”, may too be desperate, but her repression is not caused from loneliness like miss Grierson, but rather by her questionable freedom. Although repression takes on different forms, it is all the same and can eventually leave you consumed and breathless. In “A Rose for Emily”, Emily Grierson lives a secluded, and turmoil filled life which has revolved around inexplicable loneliness characterized by the harsh abandonment of death being that of her fathers.
Curley’s wife explained to Lennie about being lonely and how difficult it is on her. “’I get lonely… You can talk to people, but I talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad’” [Steinbeck 78]. Curley’s wife never has anyone to talk to; when she gets the chance she often ruins the mood. She did not want Lennie to hurt her, but Lennie is very unpredictable.
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
I thought that they would remain there forever, orphaned and alone, unless someone began to want them, to give them love and care" (Hooks 1996, p. 24). The narrator depicts the pain and throe of her experiences with prejudice against appearance and deformed physicality. Like the narrator in Bone Black, we see that Lucy initially comes to have a first gear self-esteem and valuation of her self because she bases her entire sense of wellbeing and her entire definition of her identity based on the inhumane and prejudice reactions of others to her. She implys of her body as having "physical oddness," and she also thinks of herself as a "disfigured child" (Grealy 1994, p. 4). These images of identity and self free radical not from inherent feelings of worthlessness in Lucy.
John refuses to listen to her feelings on the issues, instead of talking to find the problem. He isolates her and locks her away to think about her own thoughts. The wallpaper in her room becomes a symbol for her and she begins to see figures behind the pattern and tries to escape within herself. She compares her husband to the patterns and wishes "that top pattern could be gotten off from the under one." She starts to see women behind the pattern itself and starts to see that "in the very bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard."