Essay On The Unfair Treatment Of Women In The Yellow Wallpaper
The short story “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be published in the Atlantic Monthly to heighten the awareness of the unfair treatment of women. In this short story the narrator’s husband John tries to control her. It actually all starts when John believes that his wife is not sick and he thinks that moving to a summer house for the summer will help his wife get better. The narrator does not agree with her husband but goes along with him because he is “a physician of high standing and one’s own husband” (p.792). John also “hates to have [her] write a word” (p. 793), he has got her so scared that she feels like she to hide her journal; that she “must put it away” (p. 793) when John coms in. He controls her so much that she says
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He takes all of her control away, hires Jennie to look over her and talks down to her. When she does something that he does not approve of he instead of saying darling or dear like he usually says he adds “little” into the sentence. For example when she decides to take a walk alone, he does not like that, he says `”What is it little girl?” and when she disagrees with his assessment of how she is doing he says “Bless her little hear” (p.798). The narrator also has “a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me “ (p.793). He thinks that she is not even adult enough to take her own prescriptions which he “has [her] cod liver oil and lots if other tonics and things” (p. 797). He has treated her so much like a child that he does not even value her opinion. The narrator does not like the room her husband has picked and she wants one down on a lower level with roses, “but John would not hear of it” (p.793). By publishing this story it might show women that it is not fair that they should be treated like “little” girls, they deserve to have the same rights and treatment as their husbands
He takes all of her control away, hires Jennie to look over her and talks down to her. When she does something that he does not approve of he instead of saying darling or dear like he usually says he adds “little” into the sentence. For example when she decides to take a walk alone, he does not like that, he says `”What is it little girl?” and when she disagrees with his assessment of how she is doing he says “Bless her little hear” (p.798). The narrator also has “a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me “ (p.793). He thinks that she is not even adult enough to take her own prescriptions which he “has [her] cod liver oil and lots if other tonics and things” (p. 797). He has treated her so much like a child that he does not even value her opinion. The narrator does not like the room her husband has picked and she wants one down on a lower level with roses, “but John would not hear of it” (p.793). By publishing this story it might show women that it is not fair that they should be treated like “little” girls, they deserve to have the same rights and treatment as their husbands