A few moments later--a shot! (p. 96) The man Blanche had married had killed himself because of her. Throughout the rest of the play the “Varsouviana” is symbolic because whenever it is playing, something bad is either happening or is going to happen to Blanche. Whenever the Varsouviana starts playing, it generates a sense of anxiety. The “Varsouviana” plays when Blanche runs into the bathroom crying because Stanley hands her ticket back to Laurel for her birthday.
In the end of the story, the narrator has lost all sense of reality, and John discovers her crawling around on the floor of the nursery, following the pattern of the wallpaper. The narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” was ultimately going to be driven to insanity because of her controlling husband, her writing being forbidden, and her growing obsession with the inanimate objects. In the end, she finally does away with her supposed obligations as a wife and mother, and her sanity as
I again went to the dressing room and knocked on the door. But…she was gone. She never even came out of the dressing room—except to leave.” Apparently, there would be numerous incidents like this over the course of Marilyn’s life. (Taraborrelli) Once again, the mental mind state of Marilyn Monroe is put into question. What was she doing in there all those times?
She becomes almost paralyzed while trembling because of her incapability to do anything and knowing nothing about how to help the fawn. “She was thinking , I must do something, I must do something, but the immediacy of the tiny creature, its extraordinary physical beauty and terrible frailty distracted her, scattered her thoughts like a flock of birds frightened by a gunshot,” ( Oates 499) up until Lyle Carter arrives. Both female also tries to stop each conflict by asking to end the conversation. Along with similarities, both
Jane grows jealous, as she believes Jennie is secretly trying to do the same. On the last day of their stay, the Narrator decides that she has the perfect opportunity to free the woman in the wallpaper. After the room is emptied, she locks herself inside of it and demands to be left alone. Tearing free the wallpaper, she enters full psychosis, and takes on the persona of the woman in the wallpaper. When her husband returns that evening, he finds her creeping madly across against the wall.
Rayona hates it more than anything that when she goes anywhere, people poke fun at her and make racial remarks to her which makes her feel insecure about herself. When Ray meets Foxy for the first time, Father Tom introduces her and Foxy says, “Your Christine’s kid…The one whose father is a nigger” (Dorris 44). Not only does Rayona have to deal with racism her mother is always putting her in bad situations. There has been quite a few times where Christine has attempted to leave Ray and told her that she wanted to commit suicide. One time in the very beginning of the story Elgin goes to visit Christine in the hospital, Rayona had not seen him in 5 months and Christine did not want to tell him about her sickness.
She begins to hide her luscious hair in a cap and almost seems to lose her femininity. She becomes an outcast in the town, living on the outskirts of town. Men, woman, and children constantly making fun of both Pearl and Hester increasing the affect of Hester's diminishing appearance. An example of this abuse can be seen in Pearl repeatable being called a "demon child" by the towns people. (Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter 89) It almost seems as if the scarlet letter has absorbed her beauty along with all the rebellious and fiery qualities of Hester, leaving a cold and lonely woman, her tenderness "crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.
In that moment, she has a choice to leave the bathroom and keep her job, however she chooses to flush the toilet, thus her job, force her to go home in the storm. The film portrays the reason was out of emotion and pride and not for any moral reason or logic. She is hateful with pride and willing to sacrifice her job and facing a storm just to keep some of her pride. Justice cannot be brought to criminal who are not caught. After Miss Hilly fires Minny, Minny treats Miss Hilly to eat a pie filled with her feces, but as Miss Hilly’s mother tries to eat the pie, Minny
She will avoid it as best she can. Growth and change have a negative connotation for Alice in the story. This can be seen through her constant complaining, questioning, and fear of maturing. At the beginning of her strange story, Alice is drinking a potion to make her shrink and eating cake to make herself grow. A while later she is holding a fan to make herself shrink again.
When it comes to the latter part of the story, the narrator finds out there are women in the wallpaper crawling around. “Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast and her crawling shakes it!” (1287) As time goes by, she begins to identify herself with one of the women in the wallpaper, who are locked in it and regard her husband and Jennie as the obstructers who forbid her escaping out of the wallpaper. Finally she tears the wallpaper and crawls away, while John fainted incapably from her insanity. Her resistance appears to be gained in the long