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 two short stories show how two women have felt trapped due to their situations. In The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the woman is portrayed to have an illness and trapped in a room by her husband in order to get better. In A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, Emily's father has overprotected her denying her a normal life. When he dies she is left with no one guiding her and she decides to trap herself in her house. In the two short stories, both women feel repressed in their role unwillingly to escape their room leaving them to have a distorted reality created by their mind.
As the initial room the narrator finds himself in is not described in great detail, much emphasis is put on the Room itself. The description of the interior of the Red Room uses the conventions of a typical Victorian room that could be used in a ghost story. Firstly, there are many 'black corners' that create a feeling of mystery. There are 'sconces' and a 'mantelshelf', that often feature in stories of this genre. The narrator is the main character in 'The Red Room'.
This is because as a young girl she watched her mother suffer through a sickness known as the Cold. She had to sit as a bystander knowing there is nothing she could do but listen to her mother scream and plead for help. “In the afternoons after school, between bouts of screaming, Tana’s mother would call for her, pleading, begging to be let out. […] And little Pearl would toddle up, crying too […] Make her stop, Pearl said” (Black 14). In turn this event began to eat at her father’s ability to stay present for his daughters, leaving only Tana to be there for Pearl.
Many events in the book were very sad and touching when Foster the main girl in the story keeps a pillow case just with her dads stuff in there after he died in the army, she lives with her mom and her boyfriend named Huck who isn’t as nice to Foster at most times making her call him Elvis thinking of himself as a really good singer making Fosters mom the backstage singer and some days he even hits her mom at times and finally one day they get into a fight making Huck break into their house and hitting her mom so badly that they have to run away from their house very fast finding a safe place with Huck coming behind them with his car chasing them and soon they outrun him and arrive to West Virginia. Foster a 12 year old girl with a huge love for baking can bake almost anything possible to bake but she only has one problem she can’t read at all when she starts “it’s like my brain starts to close
He then comes home to cook, clean, and tend to the boy. Her internal conflict eventually leads to the climax when she completely isolates herself in a separate room, only coming out when the husband and the boy are away. While most women want families, she despises hers. In this room, she could imagine she was anywhere but where she actually was. She would dream of being a virgin, locked away in a tower, reiterating the fact she did not want to be a mother or a wife and instead she would be in a fairy tale.
Rough Draft People they worked with and Their death and what that indicated their life Queen Elizabeth died when she was 70 years old, on March 24, 1603 by blood poisoning. Elizabeth had lived a long life, but her health was declining and she seemed clearly unwell and depressed. As she started feeling unhealthy she retired to one of her favorite homes, which was Richmond palace. She was a very stubborn woman that she refused to allow her doctors to examine her. When she was sick she also refused to rest in bed, but rather sit on a chair for hours.
The Yellow Wallpaper “The Yellow Wallpaper” opens with the narrator, an unnamed woman, her husband John, their baby, and her sister-in-law Jennie moving into a summer estate. The narrator is suffering from post-partum depression but her doctor husband diagnoses her as “sick”. That was the diagnosis during that time because mental illness in women was not seen as real. He prescribed a rest cure and forbids her to have any form of mental stimulation, no reading or writing, and no seeing her new born baby. She believes that excitement, change, and mental stimulation would do her good but what she feels is disregarded by John.
Katherine June 15, 2008 English Paper One My Grandmother and “The Moths” Helena Maria Viramontes is the author of the short story “The Moths”, which is about a lonely fourteen-year old girl who has a broken relationship with her family and is caring for her dying Abuelita (grandmother). At the beginning of the story, the girl reveals how she’s always considered herself to be the family outcast; she is not as beautiful, kind nor as skilled as her older sisters. The girl is defensive and disrespectful, she feels misunderstood and alone. There was continuous conflict in her house, and the mother sends the girl over to the grandmother’s house to avoid it. To the girl the grandmother was powerful and understanding, “Abuelita made a balm out of dried moth wings and Vicks and rubbed my hands, shaped them back to size and it was the strangest feeling”(1118).
Analytical paper # 2 Due: October 24, 2012 “The Yellow Wallpaper” Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a young woman whose creative appeal and self-expression are suppressed by her society and her marriage. The short story is told by the narrator through her diary, which she describes as an exemption of her thoughts. The narrator is apparently artistic and creative as can be seen through her animated descriptions of the house her husband John has rented. The narrator includes representations of the yellow wallpaper in the upstairs nursery where she and her husband sleep at night. The wallpaper is used characterically to reflect the marriage the narrator finds herself ambushed inside.